But everything you described is already happening and has been for 30 years.
It has had both the federal and state governments deficit spending, has a continually balooning price, and is basically uncontrollable.
So just because we have put up with that for 30 years means expanding it is a slam dunk and necessary?
I don't think so.
The health care process needs ot be reformed. Simply changing who foots the bill and redefining the bueaucracy isn't really going to reform it in any meaningful way.
If my choice is between broken and broken, give me the version that leaves me the most money in my pocket.
All that aside, this bill has undergone the level of polticing and editing usually reserved only for tax code changes and budgets. Only a horrible abomination could come out of the process at this point, at least with reagrds to being functional.
Our Government has been meddling with Healthcare for decades and they have ruined the system, but the plan they have pushed forward puts the entire system under their destructive thumb! The Hospitals were build with private money, so why should they have to get permission from the Government to expand if this bill passes?
Why should they force doctors to accept a certain pay level, who work long hours and spend a lot of money/time to become a doctor. They will destroy the desire for people to become doctors, since you'll make not enough money to pay off your bills and can't live comfortable after those 10-14 hour work days. Congress ain't going to limit their pay or their staffing to cut costs, but they screw the medical workers in a heartbeat!
They will throw people under the "bus" of medical system to cut costs and we'll have months of waiting to treat serious illnesses that need treatment NOW, since the all mighty dollar will rule the system!
I mean with regard to the delivery of health care. You already have a massive bureaucracy pushing you around. It's just corporate and answers to nobody, and the bureaucrats themselves get bonuses by denying services to you and your loved ones. A government sponsored single payer system would be indirectly answerable via the ballot box, so we would be better off.
What a douche. 
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The first fact is that health insurance reform will mean more patient choice. It will allow every American who likes his or her current plan to keep it. And it will free doctors and patients to make the health decisions that make the most sense, not the most profits for insurance companies."
No, that's not the facts, that's the spin. Do they want the best for everyone? Probably they do, in all honesty. But this being the real world, it doesn't work that way.
I think the only thing that IS guaranteed is that they will get it wrong. Massive bureaucracy trying to implement and infinitely complex system that encompasses decision made regarding constantly changing research and technology is just going to fall down on it's ass one way or another. It seems to me that 90% of rational dissent on the subject boils down to the general fear that a) this mess will essentially limit you to only being able to participate in this broken system due to killing off competition, making alternative healthcare options priced out of reach of the vast majority of people, or simply making it illegal to do otherwise or b) that they implement a system that is capable and pleasant, but fiscally ruinous.
Myself, noting that medicaid and medicare represent the largest tax burden at the federal and state level, suspect they are capable of developing a healthcare system that is both unpleasant and financially ruinous.