While it will bring the medical side of the problems down there are a lot of problems for the system.
1) There isn't enough doctors to do the required medical checkups which means longer wait times to see a doctor. (This comes from a doctor who says he already having problems with this)
2) It invalidates a lot of insurance that people already have. I got health insurance through my employer when the bill past, I can afford to go see a doctor now but at least I'm lawfully covered or so I thought. I got a letter in the mail at the beginning of the year telling me I have to find more coverage before 2014 or else I will have to pay the $600 fine in addition to paying for the insurance I already have.
3) Come 2014 insurance rate will skyrocket. The money to insure all the uninsurable cases have to come form some where. The anti-scalping law only kicks in if the government, or party can prove they are doing so and not because they need the money to cover bloated number of people they have to now cover.
4)Some doctors will end up charging more. I have a doctor who charged a lower rate if you didn't have insurence ($20.00) but with insurence he charges $45 because of the extra paperwork that is intailed. It is a small practice only him and his receptionist, so there is an increase in labor costs.
I'm not saying it is all bad but there are some real problems that are going to hurt the system especially the lack of qualified doctors, which was a known problem about a decade before because of all the baby boomers getting older.
