Which will only give them a reason, IF (big if) this is over turned to come back with a single payer plan and force us to pay taxes in order to receive health benefits... {shivers}
Immie
That's a given Immie. Obama is on record that he wants a single payer system and he told his loyal constiuents well before the election that it would have to be done incrementally. So, the healthcare boondoggle that just passed which nobody, including Obama, believes will do a damn thing to improve overall healthcare or make it more affordable, is the first step. When it doesn't work as they know it won't, that is their license to move to the next phase eventually arriving at a single payer system.
The insurance companies have been bought off for now, but unless we elect enough conservatives to Congress to turn this around, all private insurance providers will be toast within the next four or five years. And some bureaucrat in Washington DC will be deciding what healthcare you and your loved ones will be allowed which will effectively shut down any serious or organized dissent lest those same bureaucrats retaliate against you and/or your loved ones.
This is a scary scenario any way you look at it.
Four or five years might be a little optimistic. Candidate Obama said within twenty years. I think he's ahead of schedule, but I don't think four or five years is realistic.
Immie
He is the one who has to make it happen though. So looking again to Thomas Sowell who has been ringing the alarm bells re President Obama's agenda for more than two years now, what happens during immigration reform? If they can pull that off in the same manner they passed healthcare, we acquire 12 to 20 million new voters beholden to the President and current leadership. That could be enough to prevent the GOP from regaining control of Congress and could ensure President Obama's re-election. With six more years to use with a willing Congress at his disposal. . . .