I agree with governors/state governments refusing to be “middlemen” in a federal program. It is actually foolish for a state to involve itself when it has no control.
However, the end result is the same. Taxpayers in ALL states are going to sufer as a result of OBAMACARE. The quality of medical care will go down, and everyone will still not have true access to healthcare.
Those that currently do will eventually lose their coverage to be replaced by a “communistic” system where ALL are treated EQUALLY poorly. Only the very rich will get adequate healthcare. Those of us in the middle classes will be as bad off as the poor.
“However, the end result is the same. Taxpayers in ALL states are going to sufer as a result of OBAMACARE. The quality of medical care will go down, and everyone will still not have true access to healthcare.”
Very true. But at least this way it will all come down on Obama’s head and not the states’. Can’t blame Bush for this one, big O!
who says we are going to be middle class. Communism/socialism is the great leveler. We will all be desperately poor with a small ruling elite dictatorship who will have a extravagantly lavish lifestyle.
The cost and quality of care are, of course, not important to the administration. The main thing is the extension of the federal authority to the whole health care system. It is bit like putting the first responders to a disaster in the hands of FEMA, and local law enforcement in the hands of the FBI. For men like Obama, France is the ideal of a modern state. Not that Obama has ever though through such matters. To him consolidation is a good in itself.