The Transition Away from Employer-Based Healthcare... [View All]

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I think that the biggest long-term goal (and everything about this bill is long-term) is this:

How to move to a system where individuals are responsible for buying health care coverage without demands for Government-Based Healthcare.

The process didn't begin with this bill. Most employees already pay a hefty portion of their healthcare costs now. But the fear was that, as companies shifted more of the burden to employees, more and more employees would choose to drop coverage - especially the young, healthy employees. Hence the Mandates.

But the fear for Democrats has to be this: Will corporations take the inevitable "Obamacare" frenzy as an opportunity to accelerate the transition and blame it on Democrats?