its weird how this law helps no one in a realistic manner.
they would have been better off to make medicare available to any who wanted it, except that those under retirement age need to pay for their current coverages much like they would for private insurance. The advantage to this is that the customer pool would be so large that they could provide drastically lower rates.
Point here is that although i am not in favor of the government running just about anything, doing it the medicare-way i list above would eff people less than the current system which charges people huge premiums and huge deductibles and comes out to the individuals advantage if they have a catastrophic health event or issue.
Oh but it does, it enables the NeoFeudalists™ to ultimately dictate who gets life saving care and who doesn't, which will come in handy as the Social Security Ponzi scheme runs out of funds ...
The government has no business being involved in medical care in any way whatsoever. We would be unimaginably better off had medicare never existed.