Roger Kimball: ObamaCare is Really About "Obama's Dependency Agenda"

I have often said that ObamaCare is not intended to solve any problems, real or imagined, in American healthcare. It is intended to fail, in order to rationalize the "need" for single-payer health care, or socialized medicine.

Roger Kimball sees ObamaCare as part of a larger socialist agenda in his PJ Media piece Obama's Dependency Agenda. Here is an excerpt: 

ObamaCare, the ostentatiously Unaffordable Care Act, is only incidentally about health care. That 2000-page monstrosity — which Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass to find out what was in it (remember that?) — this hypertrophied insult to the idea of responsible legislation, is really, at bottom, about the Obama administration’s Dependency Agenda. They want the government to control access to health care, and they want the IRS to police that control, because they want to control you. That’s the bottom line. Controlling more and more of your life: that’s what this “debate” is really about. “We're only five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” That — what to call it? That promise? That threat? — that campaign statement by candidate Obama in October 2008 will, I predict, be his legacy: fundamentally transforming a free, prosperous country dedicated to the principles of democratic capitalism and individual liberty and setting it instead on the road to socialist immiseration and conformity.

Well put, Roger. I couldn't agree more.

Related Reading:

Obama's "Big" Statist Vision for America.

Obama's Collectivist Manifesto, Parts 1, 2, and 3