Just wait until the "woodwork effect" takes place.

No, no, no!

You´re already rich. You already make huge profits. Why can´t you just be nice and let people have health insurance? Why can´t everybody have everything they want whenever they want it?

Why, Mommy - - why, why?

The free market will do what politicians can´t - destroy 0bamacare.

Unworkable behemoth that will go down in history as the undoing of the democratic party.

So, basically, Obamacare is going to do indirectly what should have been done directly. It is going to gradually return us to the days when people paid for their healthcare out of their own pocket and only spent money they could afford for healthcare. That stinks for somebody like myself who is middle aged and has a few health problems, but is great for somebody in their late teens and early twenties who is healthy. It will drive down the cost of care over time as people spend what they can afford for care and health care providers who charge more than people can afford will gradually go out of business.

I´m sorry to disagree, but it will be the private health companies which will be driven from the marketplace, exactly as Obama has planned.

#6 - considering that it was the private health care companies who actively worked with BO´s administration to draft Obamacare, it is divine justice if they´re run out of business by it. If Crony capitalists get the shaft, so be it.

Unfortunately, we´ll all be collateral damage.

The essence of "The Plan" is to ruin insurance companies leaving nothing but government to provide health care financing & control. It is working apace.

This is a classic socialist progression. They institute one thing, health care, that is a unsustainable idea to begin with. As it starts to fail they point their fingers at something else they need to control (insurance companies?) to make the whole scheme work. They then grab control of that. Then some thing else. Finally they have control of EVERYTHING and it is still failing. With no one left to blame the whole thing collapses.

This is the clear lesson of the history of socialism. People like BO think they can control things to turn out the way they want. But the laws of normal human behavior always trump the statist planners. That´s the one thing they cannot control. The system is built on people with all their foibles and flaws and desires.

Capitalism works simply because it most closely conforms to how people normally behave. And, with a few small tweaks, benefits society at large as well. The problems for progressives is that the motivating factor is self interest and it´s often messy; companies closing, jobs lost, etc. But in the end it works. And progressives hate that it does work so well.