Obamacare will go the way of Prohibition. It will be repealed eventually and nothing so silly and impractcal will be tried again.
From your keyboard to God' inbox!
We can hope.
You are spot-on with that observation.
Even for people to my left who think the government needs to monkey with healthcare, this thing is too Rude-Goldberg ridiculously complex, Huey Long corrupt, and was passed via the most opaque, underhanded, slimy, objectionable process in history.
Unfortunately much damage has already been done by this obamanation that will take years to repair
Not only that, it can be the start of the death knell for the entire liberal agenda.
My fear is that America will first.
But I hope and pray you are right.
There are certainly enough votes in the House and perhaps enough in the Senate to overturn it, but there isn't a two-thirds majority to avoid a Presidential veto, is there?
“Obamacare will go the way of Prohibition.”
Not a chance. It’s coming as of 2014. The gop wing of the uniparty loves that it subsidizes the insurance companies, the ‘rat wing of the uniparty loves that it socializes the biggest industry in the country. Both wings love the amount of personal data it requires.
Give it time, it will.
I believe this is true.
However, to get there, there WILL be permanent damage to high quality American health care. Here is a few ways that come to mind:
1) employer-provided health insurance will be forever removed as a benefit to many employees.
2) large numbers of high quality physicians will leave (either the country or the practice) to find more lucrative areas. They won't return.
3) the incentive for medical research will be eliminated and American medical advancements will stagnate. This will never be re-established, much the same way that our space program has lost the ability to go back to the moon.
4) medical records will be in the hands of the government, and they will never be destroyed completely. The present generation of citizens will forever lose their privacy.
5) millions, who were previously covered, will die due to rationing of treatment.
6) a medical black market will develop for medicine and medical care. The mob will retain some control on healthcare well after Obamacare has been repealed.
7) the 'entitlement mentality' will only deepen.
I’m not so sure about that. Socialized healthcare is like a tick on your dog: once it gets its claws in there, it sticks there and gets bloated.
I have lived in both England and Canada. Our systems here are pretty bad (although not as ill-conceived as Obamacare), but it has gotten to the point, where you cannot even discuss changing it without being trashed as far right radical. Which however, is a badge I wear with honour :)
...Ian.
I disagree. IMO it will come back again as Hillarycare when she is “elected” as POTUS in 2016 (or sooner).