As the Frankenstein Obama Healthcare bill draws nearer to the final round of back room deals and dubious power grabs to obtain the votes it needs to pass, an Associated Press article has this to say:

"THE SELF-EMPLOYED

Starting in 2014, self-employed people and those whose employers don't offer coverage would be able to pick a plan through a health insurance exchange, like a supermarket. It's modeled on the federal employee health program available to members of Congress, which offers a range of private insurance. Small businesses could also join the exchange.

More than 30 million people would buy their own coverage through state exchanges, and nearly 6 in 10 would be eligible for tax credits to help pay premiums. The aid would be generous for lower-income families, less so for those solidly in the middle class.

For example, a family of four making $44,000 would pay $2,763 in premiums, or about 6 percent of its income.

But a similar family making $66,000 would have to pay $6,257 in premiums, close to 10 percent of its income. That may be less than a mortgage, but it's more than a car payment.

Once the exchanges open, most Americans would be required to carry health insurance or pay a fine. Medicaid would be expanded to cover childless adults living near poverty.

People with employer-provided insurance would not see major changes. But if they lost their job, they'd be able to get coverage through the exchange."

It is exactly as I said.

The Obama bill is nothing more than a government power grab and an unholy alliance between big business (insurance) and the government it has so ably purchased.

This "plan" requires the citizenry to buy a private healthcare product from an insurance exchange.

There are no guarantees of coverage, no guarantees of effective price controls or cost containment, no guarantee of real competition between the companies.

Just mandatory enrichment of private corporations who, through crony capitalism, have managed a way to ensure the unearned: profits by government mandate.

In other words, even though I want none of the above, the exact ~justifications~ you hear from the confused citizenry as to why they WANT the bill to pass, to say nothing of the outright propaganda and lies of those politically affiliated with the Left, as they bleat their nonsensical Talking Points -- are not valid summaries or understandings of what this bill really is. The REASONS they want Obama's bill to pass is that they think it is going to help them, and help America.

What is going to do is add a government layer of control, cost and corruption to an already-overpriced and overly-bureaucratic crony-capitalist system.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are heading in the wrong direction.

Standing pat in a corrupt, over-priced, and dirty system is bad.

Running headlong into financial suicide which enriches only the political elite is madness.

Free markets and diligence in policing crony capitalism and political corruption is the right direction, but none of the power elite even considers or discusses it.