It is always interesting to write things out systematically, or as close as you can get. What became obvious to me is that Obamacare’s principle aim was not improvements in American health, but rather universal health insurance coverage. In point of fact, as I will show, REDUCTIONS in access to medical care are inevitable, as are vast cost increases for everyone who was not already poor. It is very clearly a redistibutive project, but one which is unlikely to yield much actual benefit for ANYONE except governmental bureaucrats, who will be in hog heaven.
This aim is egalitarian, and like all egalitarianistic projects, it is one most likely to increase human misery, overall. Egalitarianism works to some extent, among people who were already equal, who were already relatively uniform, as in Sweden and Japan. But you don’t expect innovation from such people, and you don’t expect much energy for life. Both nations are shrinking, demographically, as are most all industrialized nations except the United States and Israel. They don’t see a connection between their current sybaritic pleasures and a future involving their responsibility for children.
It is selfishness, self preoccupation, one rationalized by their politics. I will deal in my next post with this topic.