Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

[Xiahou]

The obvious long-term solution is implementing what every other industrialized nation on Earth has, which is some sort of single-payer system. I know that's not what Ayn Rand (who wrote the Constitution and gave birth to George Washington) would want, but it's the only system demonstrated to control costs while providing a baseline of health for citizens.

There. Isn't that much more pleasant to read? All that's missing is some supporting statements.

Because Obamacare is entirely derived from a Republican think-tank and Republican politicians, it addresses none of the underlying problems. It's still trying to pretend that national private-sector healthcare can work, a proposition for which there is zero evidence.

Again, you can try to blame whoever you want for it, but it was passed by a Democrat congress and signed into law by Obama. Let's deal with reality. If the Democrats didn't like it, they need not have passed it.

And anyway, you have no positive agenda to put forward, just Obamacare bad bad bad. You can't defend the status quo ante because it is indefensible, and the only changes you can suggest are Randian free-market solutions which have never been demonstrated to work in the real world.

Nor have they been tried. If you had a hangnail and someone suggested sawing off your arm to fix it and I said we shouldn't, would you chastise me for not having a plan??

It's hardly a "Randian" suggestion... whatever that means. Employer-based coverage grew out of FDR era wage controls. That was a major factor in ballooning medical costs. I'm not even claiming it would solve everything- but beginning to separate coverage from employment by breaking down the tax favoritism would make it better than it is now.