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We WISH the wheels would fall off. But the nanny-staters are not done yet - there is WAY too much for them at stake.

If the true costs of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” were revealed, even most of the moderately to strong supporters of this resource-limiting and wealth transfer scheme would rise in revolt. If you just look at your health care premiums for the coming year, you already see significant penalties assessed against you for the support of the whole program, which is by no means fully in effect yet. And this is just the FIRST year’s increase, the rise shall continue exponentially over the next ten years, if not longer.

That is, if it is not repealed. But the cry comes, you can’t replace something with nothing. Well, yes, you can, because emergency and urgent care facilities already exist. True, they are already overburdened, but would not the expenditures for expanding and improving these existing facilities be money much better spent, than trying to place mandates for certain conditions, and “review boards” (death panels) for serious disorders. Single payer is a huge fraud, reducing costs for nobody, and assuring both the above are the only two paths to “community health”.

Medical savings accounts, to cover the minor expenses of health maintenance, and major medical insurance, to cover those catastrophic costs associated with trauma, devastating disease, or serious stress situations, is a much better deal for the vast majority of Americans, working and retired. For the financially distressed, the existing emergency and urgent care facilities, fully funded and supported in the community, are their alternative. Nowhere is it written that either of these has to be supported in any way by the Federal government, though it may be a useful thing to administer at the state or local levels.

But there is no populist appeal in that.