>>The artillery used to protect the interests of big pharmacy, insurance and AMA (did I forget anyone?) is of the expected caliber.
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>>FWIW, the pharmaceutical companies and the AMA are supporting Obamacare.
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>Whoever makes a "everyone must buy what Dragan makes" law gets my vote, even if dozen others make the same thing. I may as well support the other side for different reasons, just to stir the stew.
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>But on the other hand (I still haven't read what the bill says), if it creates a governmental competition in insurance, the insurers alone suffice to fuel the artillery. I somehow don't see the GOP alone doing all this campaign just out of habit. But they may as well do so, trying to score whatever points they can.
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>Whatever they do in the end, I'd just hate to give money for something that's too complicated. A thousand page bill doesn't look straightforward, even if it was chock full of illustrations.

It does not create a governmental competition. That is where it died as any kind of real reform. We salute the profit motive here in the land of the free.