What I find frustrating is the way "health insurance" is conflated with "healthcare". Obamacare does not provide new access to healthcare. Prior to Obamacare there were free clinics, emergency rooms and public health clinics that provided healthcare to those without health insurance and without the means to pay. The free care was subsidized by those with the means to pay.
Obamacare does not solve a healthcare access issue. Instead, it uses government to redistribute wealth and buy the votes of certain favored groups. It also uses government to force the liberal agenda (feminism, gay rights, birth control, abortion, and so on) on the entire country. Obamacare allows the government to expand the scope of the IRS, gives the government access to your bank account, and allows the government access to the most intimate aspects of your life.
Obamacare is not about healthcare. It will destroy our healthcare system. Obamacare is about control.
Control is the overarching goal,
but I think Obama’s primary motivation is to hurt people who’ve “had it too good”,
ie, those who, through their life decisions, ended up buying their own health insurance or through their employers.