Obamacare was written so as to foster this dynamic...with the end goal of having large, unionized hospitals every where and flaming liberal owners working in concert to make money off of the Federal Government.

It is a mega disaster in the making.

Steward Health Care is one of the big consolidators and they are huge Hussein supporters.

I remember when the ADA act was passed in the early ´90s. Some lawyers went around measuring the size of handicapped parking spaces and doorways looking for any little non-compliance. If there was any deviation from proscribed law they would file a harsh lawsuit.
Expect that kind of mentality in spades against smaller medical practices trying to comply with 2,000+ pages of Obamacare regulations.

Sounds a lot like what Obama´s crony capitalism does to businesses.

Only Big Business can afford Big Government.

what #4 said. Note that this is also the biggest reason that the gap between rich and poor has gotten worse in the USA.

Hmmm, help the big guys (because they are in bed with us), and screw the little guys...Yea, that´s the ticket!

#2, there are professional ´disability hounds.´
The wheelchair curb cuts in Erie, Pa were off by about an eighth of an inch. Erie got sued, redid the cuts at a cost of a million dollars.
Erie is broke, by the way.
A restaurant owner in California, by the name of Clint Eastwood, was sued by a handicap pimp because the restroom was not properly handicapped accessible. Eastwood argued that the law should give a specified amount of time, 90 days or so, to correct deficiencies. But it doesn´t.
And the handicap pimp who sued Eastwood?
He admitted that he had never been in Eastwood´s restaurant.

A Big Government/Fascist Government is a scary government.

Our family doctor, a lone practitioner, just hung ´em up , about five years ahead of his original schedule because of Obamacare. He had a pretty sizable practice. Following what he tells me is the common thing , he tried to sell his practice and got no takers.