I enjoy the Clean Debate Zone much more than the rest of these boards because the anti-flaming rules typically keep the extremists at both fringes away. Without flaming, we can have real conversations.
I would like to hear your thoughts on what the true "purpose" of Obamacare is/was.
Do you think the purpose was truly to improve our healthcare system and lower costs?
Do you think it was meant as a big step toward a single payor system in the US by getting as many people onto Medicaid as possible??
Do you think it was meant to take over an even greater portion of our healthcare system, fail miserably and thus creating another "crisis" which could only be solved by full implementation of a single payor system?
Or do you have another idea??
I'm conflicted between the three. I don't think President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and their staff are stupid, but perhaps they were naive enough to think that this would actually improve health while lowering costs. On the other hand, I think both of them have said, on the record, that they are FOR a single payor system enough times that this very well could have been their goal in the first place.
What do you think?
Quite obviously it's simply one step towards a goal of socialized medicine. The legislation itself doesn't work and was horribly written. Obama and Pelosi wanted single payer but each was astute enough to realize they wouldn't get it. So they did the next best thing...lie to the American people about what ObamaCare was...pass it...and then when it implodes they will call for a single payer system to "fix" the problem.