Beyond the scary potential of a government monopoly controlling healthcare (and it WILL become a monopoly despite all the lies of the current President), this mad rush to take over such a huge chunk of our economy will result in horrible side effects.

There will be greatly diminished incentive to become a doctor, as great minds do not generally like working for a bureaucracy, which specializes in limiting, not promoting, innovation. Add to this the racial quotas that medical schools and hospitals will be forced to adhere to, and you will see quality of doctors decline precipitously.

Therapeutic and procedural innovations that currently benefit not just the U.S., but the whole world, will cease.

The ability to work outside the system, to pay out of pocket, will be taken away, just as it has been illegalized in Canada. If you want care that the government won’t pay for, you are out of luck. You will be prosecuted for seeking it. When the government decides you should “accept” your death, nay, embrace it, then you damn well better accept it.

As such, all those hapless Europeans and Canadians who come here to escape their states’ draconian limits on healthcare will also finally have to accept their own demise.

Unless they are illegal aliens. Or looking to get an abortion.