Hey, I'm not sayin' it's a good thing. I'm just sayin' that's the way it is.
If the government is paying the bill, the government is going to arrange things for its own benefit.
You see, the problem is not that the government is a self-interested party, because that will always be so. Human nature, and all that. The problem is that free people have decided to take the King's coin, and now they will have to live by the King's rule.
Far better for each person to take care of his own needs, and that way each person can make his own choices and there will be no need for Death Panels.
I'll break my earlier inclination and respond this once.
Laissez-faire Libertarianism. The problem is that real life is not as cut-and-dried. Obamacare was not passed in normal deliberative fashion; it was NEVER read beforehand except by the colluding schemers that wrote it.
We have not yet begun to realize the destructive implications left in its implementation via spurious regulations by a bunch of lackey Democrat bureaucrats. It contains penalties for out of network (i.e., private healthcare), and ultimately (with the single payer goal - Government) relegates healthcare for individuals with absolutely no options outside its realm. Their system wouldn't last a decade otherwise.