A Chaos-Driven Path to Single Payer? Strong indications have emerged that this may be the plan.

Pajamas Media ^ | 01/08/2014 | Tom Blumer

[Blood of Tyrants]

Unfortunately, the rest of us have to pay, also.

[Responsibility2nd]

((((Resist. At all costs, resist.)))))

I was in converstation with a FReeper the other day who had signed up for FUBOCare. We were on that thread about that Virginia hopsital that was sending away patients from the ER who “might” have FUBOCare, but because the FUBOCare could not be verified; they were denied treatment.

He was optimistic that his provider and his coverage would be fine with no glitches.

It was all I could do to be nice to him and not wish he would get FUBO’d. Was he just naive, or just nutz?

Time will tell.

[KarlInOhio]

I don't think the website failure was part of the overall plan. The website was just a typical "give the overpriced, no-bid contract to friends" government action. The fiscal unsustainability was supposed to drive every insurance company out of the medical insurance business over the next few years leaving government control as the "only" solution, with the final debate being between a 100% solution like Canada or a 95% one like the UK where it is still legal to get treatment outside of the NHS.

If they were competent, the website would have been like the witch's gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel - beautiful, tasty and just tempting you to come in and get shoved into the oven of socialized medicine. But fortunately they (#$%*(#( that up, warning the country that the whole program was bad.

[Lou L]

It won’t be long before a few patients who have tried and failed to get treatment die or suffer serious, debilitating complications. Who will get blamed when this happens?

If it's never really reported, does a patient really die?

Obituaries will unfortunately never say, "cause of death: Obamacare!"

[Rich21IE]

No doubt in my mind that Single Payer will be the next step and it will doubtless be ushered in by Hilary sometime after her instalation in 2016.

[Cyber Liberty]

Particularly tragic circumstances would give the single-payer crowd openings to say, “See? They can’t be trusted. Keeping the private sector involved was a mistake. The government has to control healthcare, or it won’t work.”

Well Duh. The Regressives have been saying this for decades.

[The Great RJ]

The policy cancellations, raising prices for insurance and inflated deductibles will all be blamed on those dirty greedy insurance companies and the only way to save healthcare is to kill off private health insurance and let the benevolent government run it. Whether this was the intention of Obamcare or not this will be the solution offered when Obamacare collapses in 2014.

However I think at least some of the American people have figured out that all the trouble with Obamcare is that it was based on total lies with the President himself blatantly and knowingly lying to the American people about keeping their policies and doctors. The ignorant and the press will buy the government will fix things story, but I think that most people now understand that Obama is a liar and cannot be trusted about anything related to health insurance.

[JimRed]

Is it 1776 yet?

[DaveA37]

My guess is that a single payer system has been the target all along. With the complete failure and train wreck termed “odumbocare”, its just about time to pull the lever and switch over. Something like a “bait and switch” plan.

[Fledermaus]

Rush and Levin have been saying this for years.

It “should” backfire after all the government bungling and money wasting in that people will laugh at the idea of the government in total charge of the system.

But I forget we live with morons.

[21twelve]

Should have just gone with Hillary Care in the first place. Timing should be about right for obamacare to go under the bus and Hillary to rescue us.