The law will require enrollment of everyone. Then the taxes and cost sharing will kick in. Before long you’ll be paying $2,000 a month for rationed healthcare never meant to be delivered. All the while growing the size and scope of government.
If they have any sense at all (and I mean are cunning not necessarily sensible), which I think they do, the Dems will push it the following way: we want to get rid of deductibles and premiums entirely! No more will middle class America be forced to pay any burdensome cost each month for their healthcare! The rich (whoever they deem “rich”) will pay their fair share!
What this will mean though, and what they will never say, is that everyone will see a significant increase in their taxes. Most won’t “notice” it because it will be part of the taxes taken out of their check every week. And no one looks at that anyway, looks at how much they *could* be earning if the government strongman (the IRS) didn’t take so much.
So another $100 or so lost every month won’t mean much to those paying $1,000s every month in health costs. And that’s how it’ll be sold too, a trade off where you get more for the money you are paying in taxes. All on the “rich”’s dime of course.
The problems no one will see except those who already know how government operates (that is, for example “conservatives” or everyone here on FR) everyone else though won’t see or believe that it will invite massive waste, and abuse, and everyone’s cost for healthcare will actually increase (unless you don’t mind waiting a year for a CT scan or some other routine diagnostic procedure that now one can usually get within a couple weeks).
You will pay extra, to be put at the “front of the line” so to speak for such tests and procedures, like it is in Italy now, or you will die waiting. There there is national healthcare no one “pays” (because they all pay massive taxes) but you wait for routine tests sometimes as much as a year, even if such tests, procedures and even specialists could bring significant relief to chronic illnesses you are currently suffering with. You wait, a long time. Unless you pay then you can get seen literally tomorrow. It’s literally like that in Italy now I know my wife is Italian and fortunately her parents have enough money to pay to be seen or treated immediately by the same medical staff and machines others will be treated with a year later.
They pay, typically like 100 euros, and they are seen the next day. But if they didn’t pay, they would be seen a year from now. By the same people with the same equipment. This is the reality of “single payer” that the leftists don’t get, or they do understand but don’t care. It actually benefits the “rich” more than anyone. Because the “rich” can be seen by medical professionals and treated whenever they want. As long as one is willing to pay enough money. But the poor, the “disadvantaged” you know the ones the left are *supposed* to be for, they wait. And wait. And wait. And sometimes die waiting.
But who cares. It’s “fair” now in Italy. And it will be here too, under the Democrat plan.