This is precisely the same trojan horse as the so-called "emergency" rent-control laws passed in New York City in 1948 in the wake of WWII and all the returning vets, which stipulated that residential rents would be subject to government control until the vacancy rate for residential apartments exceeded 5% - a threshhold that, of course, has never, ever been reached because the same socialist/communist left-wing liberals who originally enacted NYC's rent control used the power they had arrogated to themselves to distort the New York City housing market to ensure that no property owner in her or his right mind would ever blow the money needed to build enough new apartments so that the vacancy rate would ever exceed that threshhold of 5% - and so, 62 years later, New York City still suffers under the so-called "emergency" provisions of rent control.
Mark my words, unless we are vigilant against the sort of soft-core seduction the Democrats - who have been acting in bad faith ever since at least 2006, when they took control of Congress - we will still end up with government-controlled, 1970s Soviet-style healthcare.
I agree with you. They’ll start saying anything now to save their jobs...