[opticks]

"This is no accident, folks. This was planned. This is how we get to government-run single-payer health insurance - by making it too expensive for private businesses to provide insurance to their employees."

That was the plan all along, but the gov't didn't have the money, expertise, or infrastructure to run that kind of system, so they needed to buy some time, perhaps a decade. Thus, we get the stop-gap system, Obamacare.

[nascarnation]

It’s a double win.

The Death Panels not only help fix the SS/Medicare financials, but help kill off old primarily Republican voters faster.