I just posted this as the first comment on the ABC thread:
This is what Obama said to a union audience back in 2007:
“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan. The United States of America–the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent–14 percent of its gross national product on health care and cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody and that’s what Jim is talking about when he says, ‘Everybody in. Nobody out.’ A single payer health care credit–universal healthcare credit. That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House and we’ve got to take back the Senate and we’ve got to take back the House.”
As you can see, “Obamacare” is merely a transitional stage to national government healthcare, like the disaster in Britain. Obama has already wrecked private healthcare, now we will see that Obamacare can’t work, and what’s left? National single payer system, where government bureaucrats will decide who gets what procedure, and when. If you thought weaponizing the IRS against Obama’s political enemies was dangerous, wait until people are afraid that their kid won’t get an operation if they oppose the government vocally.
“Welcome to the USSA, comrades. Now shut up, or maybe little Sally doesn’t get that operation, understand?”
Correlation isn't causation, I know that. But it is a reason to hypothesize. The painkiller addiction crisis, often leading to heroin addiction, has spun out of control since ObamaCare took effect. Any connection?