The Problem With ObamaCare

Over at Protein Wisdom, dicentra issues a pretty solid denunciation of what Pelosi's bill is and what it will accomplish:

A. We don’t mind helping the helpless. At all. In fact, we on the starboard side open our own wallets and give much more money directly to the poor than the port side. For example, I give copious amounts to my church’s welfare system and to the local food bank. When I give to the IRS, I pay for boondoggles and pork and earmarks and union payoffs.
B. We don’t confuse products with their labels. That O-care has been sold as a way of “helping the poor” doesn’t mean it will help them, especially not in the long run.
C. The insurance mandates force insurance companies to accept all comers and only charge $X. Then the mandates force the insurance companies to pay out $X + infinity. You don’t need to be a particle physicist to know that the insurance companies will go bankrupt in fairly short order.
D. After that, the fed will step in and “save” the system by instituting single-payer, which was the plan all along. And when the government is running healthcare, the point of the exercise is not to save lives but to save money. Doctors’ fees will plummet—45% already plan to cut back on their services or retire entirely—which results in long lines and shortages. How does that help the poor? How does that help anyone?
E. Like those who rescure injured wild animals then rehabilitate them to return to the wild, we believe that human beings are better off “in the wild” instead of being penned up in a zoo, even though zoos provide free healthcare. We are eagles: we would rather risk the danger that comes from living free and wild so that we can soar through the skies the way we were meant to.
F. Entitlements are the heroin of the dependent. You do no one any favors by doing for them what they are able to do for themselves. It is NOT proper for the government to position itself as a parent that keeps us in perpetual adolescence. Europeans already fail to reproduce, care only about food and vacations, and couldn’t live “in the wild” if they had to.

The response to which is, obviously, that it helps the politicians gain in power and self-worth, the heroin of the messianic.