The strategic brilliance of the Affordable Care Act

[Mr Khan]

BlkPaladin said:
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.

This is only some of the practical problems of the plan

My point is not to downplay these problems, but to suggest that the only solution to these problems is to move further towards universal coverage, and not away. If things do get bad, all the sooner will such solutions have to be enacted.