The Coming of ZeroCare

Just a Huge New Tax

The creation of Zerocare is really just an enshrining of an already government-created cost shift into one where the "rich" are forced out of the system in favor of the groundlings. Zerocare will codify and sponsor mediocrity, condoning waste and inefficiency which is a hallmark of any government enterprise. The "rich" will pay twice for the same care they receive now, but the rest of the population will actually receive less care than currently received under the single tier system. Like Canadians and Europeans, as the system deteriorates slowly, so too will expectations.

Villains by necessity will have to be created to whom culpability can be shifted. We just witnessed this in the Government sponsored melt down of the economy with the failure of the congressionally mandated subprime mortgage market. The blame will fall on the private system, not the creators of this mediocrity, the Kennedys, the Franks and the Dodds.