Repealing ‘Obamacare’ Would Explode Debt, Says Government Auditor

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25. agreed about the Rethugs, but this plan is deeply flawed, and the negative impacts will be hung

around the necks of Democrats everywhere if it passes Supreme Court constitutional muster (which I doubt). One of the more damning things is the disproportinate effect on small employers, who are going to be (in some cases) swamped by the combination of fines and/or expenses of compliance, as well as tax increases and money/time spent on paperwork. This will result in a large amount of lay-offs in a very large employment sector.

My heart really goes out to the US citizens who by the tens of millions, suffer the horrid blowback of it's for-profit healthcare paradigm. It is going to take a collapse of the present system in order to get universal care. At the present rate of increase, this collapse is all but baked in the cake. Medicare along, operating as it does in a straightjacket of greed by big pharma and the providers, is in a 100 trillion unfunded debt hole when projected out over the next several decades.

I bang my head so many times looking at how such a great nation is so utterly ruthless in regards to this basic human right. The fact that 75% of the US will be obese http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/21/429246/75-percent-of-americans-will-be-overweight-by-2020/ and 50% diabetic or near-diabetic by 2020 http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/More+than+Americans+will+face+diabetes+2020+report/3889517/story.html makes the urgency of rectifying this even more critical.