Must read: Mark Steyn explains why Obamacare is worth the price to the Dems.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/health-237719-care-government.html
There is also something involved in something like this called “The Law of Unintended Consequences” where they may think they have thought it all through. But in reality they may than likely get a violent backlash from the American public that will lead not only to massive electoral defeat but also criminal prosecution, punishment and the total ruination of themselves.
Excerts from Mark Steyn link.
Indeed. Look at it from the Dems’ point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That’s a huge prize, and well worth a midterm timeout.
I’ve been bandying comparisons with Britain and France, but that hardly begins to convey the scale of it. Obamacare represents the government annexation of “one-sixth of the U.S. economy” – i.e., the equivalent of the entire British or French economy, or the entire Indian economy twice over. Nobody has ever attempted this level of centralized planning for an advanced society of 300 million people. Even the control-freaks of the European Union have never tried to impose a unitary “comprehensive” health care system from Galway to Greece. The Soviet Union did, of course, and we know how that worked out.