Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
I figure the main beneficiaries of the program are insurance companies, large healthcare providers and government agencies.
Largely correct. Health Insurance and hospital stocks skyrocketed the moment Obamacare was passed.

Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
It is just an estimation but I think the people will take it in the shorts, and the pocket of course.
Hard to estimate. Our pre-Obamacare system was already outpacing inflation by well over 100%. As economists say, trends that cannot continue ... don't. So something was (is) going to break. I doubt you can blame the deep dysfunction of our healthcare system exclusively or even primarily on an initiative as watered-down and modest as Obamacare. Not that people won't try, bless their little hearts.

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I shudder at the thought of a government run healthcare system as it would be under funded and so filled with red tape you would long since have died before you got in to see a government doctor.
If this were true, you would see corresponding health data from single-payer systems, showing less efficiency and worse health results. The opposite is true.

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My guess is this will be about as good as you can get.
What are you basing that on? Other nations have enacted objectively better systems than ours, and have decades of documented experience to back it up. I am continually amazed by the empiricism-free and data-free nature of these sorts of objections.