[sergeantdave]

So, use communism/socialism to overload the system, create a crisis and bankrupt the nation. That will motivate people to demand more communism/socialism.

That makes no sense.

[ClearCase_guy]

But, we are supposed blame the Republicans for why it's not working. Obamacare -- you see -- would be a wonderful system, but the Republicans messed it up. Now the system is overloaded and it doesn't work. So the (obvious) solution is to go full Single Payer and get 100% of the country on Medicaid. Then, through rationing, we can all be at an equal level of healthcare, and the world will be a worker's paradise.

It's true there is no viable solution down this path -- but the way that the politicians intend to "sell" this to the public seems pretty clear to me.

And, of course, once real tyranny is fully in place, you no longer have to "sell" anything or justify anything. The political elite have total control and nothing will touch them short of full revolution. They don't think we have it in us, and so they are pressing forward for the real tyranny as their final solution. They think their power will be locked in.

[john drake]

It does if the system that eradicated choice, I.e., the market system, remains in place and continues to not allow the market to create options, I.e., totalitarian communism management of health care. No market, no choice.

[MrB]

I think that’s what we’re [hopefully] seeing with Obamacare.

People are at least seeing a bit of a glimmer of the truth that the government can’t and shouldn’t run things like this.