Al, I'm trying to be realistic here. "Political reality" is often used as an excuse by politicians to lie and exaggerate. Harry Reid was unapologetic for lying about Romney not paying his taxes, and he used that very excuse.
In the case of ObamaCare, I've always maintained that it will lower the number of uninsured people in America. Maybe that by itself is worth it, but it's going to cost us, and we Americans like not having to pay the same amount of taxes that, say, Europeans or even Canadians have to pay. Hence the reason why its supporters had to lie to get it passed.
As for the overall costs of health care itself, that's a bigger problem, one that ObamaCare won't fix despite what the lawmakers have claimed. This is something that turned me off from the bill, because it was an outright lie, something that was borne out of ignorance of reality combined with the "political reality" that you talk about.
Personally, I don't know what the solutions are. Single payer might be one, but that's a drastic change which I believe will negatively affect the quality of health care that those who already have insurance will receive.
But I believe, absent of any free market solution that the vast majority of Americans would accept, that single-payer is inevitable.
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