Well Britain is a nanny state. And it's pathetic. And it looks like America is heading down that road as well.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1-5nosmoke.7222732mar30,0,6728342.story
Seems unrelated but I you'll see a lot more of this real soon. I wonder how much worse this is going to get when young healthy people who don't want to buy insurance are forced to buy into Obama's corporate/government co-op or under the threat of IRS bullying and fines if they don't comply. The system will swell with expensive bureaucrats and lawyers (the only people who can even make an attempt to understand all the ins and outs of the new legislation) and the common people will be punished with restriction after restriction to "keep costs down".
The poorer states are already freaking out now that they are realising the cost of Obamacare, which is being imposed on them by the feds in a very unconstitutional manner. Some of the states supported leftist reform. But now that they are seeing just how high the costs are going to be, and realising that state funded services such as foster care, education etc are going to have to take major cuts they are trying to back pedal a little bit. The country is already broke. Americans are in for a shock if they don't think that Obamacare is going to restrict individual freedom. The fat cats will line up at the government trough and manage to get richer as always. But I think more than anything they should blame the republicans for all of this. US healthcare needed reform but it was ignored completely for too long and the democrats saw their chance to expand the federal government and gain more control over people's lives using the guise of "protecting people from corporate evil" to achieve their goals.. In my opinion "reform" should have gone in a different direction entirely. The left (like most groups) hates a monopoly where the rich get richer unless it's their own monoploy. Now they have theirs.
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