[grumpygresh]

When long lines develop because of reduced access to health care, we will see some “ gray market” medicine. A prospective cash paying patient could conceivably use an alias and state that they are not an American citizen or are uninsured. After all, medical providers will not be able to inquire as to a prospective patients’s citizen status in order to receive treatment. In addition, some patients may also want to use this approach because of privacy concerns. I wonder how much of this happens in Canada and the UK today?.
To counter this approach, Big Brother may need to use informants that pose as patients to break up these clinics. The health care bill calls for a tripling to the IRS budget and these agents will needs things to do.
Are we going to transform America from soft tyranny into an hard tyranny c/o the IRS armed agent and some boys from Interpol?

[Mark was here]

Shades of “doctor shopping”. Even doctor shopping wasn't about the health of the patient, it was to prevent the free market from operating. This Health Care thing really isn't about the patients either, it is about creating government dependency.

[Soothesayer9]

"A prospective cash paying patient could conceivably use an alias and state that they are not an American citizen or are uninsured. After all, medical providers will not be able to inquire as to a prospective patients’s citizen status in order to receive treatment."

Don't worry. Obama has you covered.