And now, the problems with Obamacare become manifest

Even this early in the preparartions to impliment Obamacare, it's becoming clear that we're not getting the program we were told we were getting.

As someone without health insurance- but with large medical bills- I am very much in favor of something major being done to ensure universal health care- even free health care, to those to can't afford it. In fact, it has always seemed to me to be inherently immoral for anybody's access to health care or legal assistance to depend on their financial situation. No matter what the Republican mantra may have been during the health care debate, health care- and justice- are basic human rights.

But this expensive, patchwork program isn't going to work. And now, it seems, it isn't even going to give us the control over our own health care choices we were told we would have.

Perhaps some of these choices may have to be given up in order to get to a workable plan. But we ought to get the plan the democratic system produces, and not be surprised by liabilities we were told during the debate that the plan didn't have.

We ought, in short, to get the health care plan Congress says it's giving us when it votes for it. There shouldn't be unwelcome surprises like the onces we seem to be facing.

HT: Real Clear Politics