[thecavemaster]

What you are describing is exactly what will happen unless Obamacare is repealed. American employers will drop healthcare coverage from their benefits packages. Then many healthy Americans will simply pay a fine for not being covered because it will be cheaper than insurance. When they get seriously ill, then those same uncovered workers will sign up for insurance. Is that the kind of thing that you naively believe Obama's brand of socialism is going to prevent?

That is exactly what Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged would happen - but she was clueless when asked how much more tax dollars would be required to cover the high risk pools that Obamacare will create.

Great example of what happens when a socialist puts his thumb on the scales of the free market.

What I described is happening and was happening. Obama is not a socialist; he is a "fair scales" capitalist.

(And, yes I do believe that there is a role for government in a capitalist system. Breaking up AT&T was an example of proper government intervention as the cost of long distance telecommunication plummeted after the break-up - with no long term degradation of service.)

Walmart was greasing the system, using the federal government as welfare for its own benefit, along with many other big chain type organizations. By the way, Barack Obama is not a socialist by any fair and balanced use of the word.