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Once this gets installed, it will be impossible to get rid of, just like Social Security is impossible to get rid of.

We are helpless to stop this. The few of us left who are actually paying taxes to support this mess will just give up if we cannot leave the country all together.

Business and industry will surely leave, after the Obamunists recently decided to double tax multinational Corporations and added 800 new IRS agents to audit them.

Watch that brand new giant SUCKING SOUND as Corporations and industry scrambles to leave and shuts down all their American factories and operations.

Great article. Here’s one example of what the ballooning costs of such a system would be. In Ohio spending on Medicaid is 40% of the state’s budget. It is projected to be 75% of the state’s budget by 2020. Once these “free health care” programs are in place there is no way to limit their cost except by rationing services.

As time has passed and funds became short, the federal government has imposed more and more regulations related to "quality" which have dramatically increased the cost to participate by hospitals and providers. Most of the current quality incentives such as "Pay for Performance" and "Never Events" are designed to decrease the government's responsibility for payment predicated on the ridiculous assumption that a perfect human specimen is being provided to receive care under their programs.

Medicare won't reimburse hospitals anymore if a patient acquires MRSA while a patient (won't pay for the cost of treating the MRSA). All our patients now get swabbed when they are admitted, swabbed again if their stay is at least 7 days and every 7 days after that and when they are discharged.

They also won't reimburse any more the cost of treatment for any falls the patient might have while under the hospital's care. So if a little old Alzheimer lady decides to get out of bed and gets dizzy, falls and breaks her arm, the hospital has to absorb the cost. We've got these little alarms attached to them that will go off if they attempt to leave their bed. Have 3 or 4 of these kinds of patients on a unit and you can only imagine the stress it can cause especially if a nurse is trying to treat and access 6-7 patients, pass meds and then having to dash out the door to try to catch them before they fall and break a leg or a hip.