I vote for the cliff sure it will suck, but the taxes aren’t getting raised, the “temporary” cuts are being repealed, the will get it from you either way. The Right also get dinged in defense spending, but if you figure we are winding down some overseas troops and reducing our forces, it’s an easy concession. The left though get a drop kick to the seeds, you get automatic austerity, and no one likes to give up their handouts.

Now the out of control spending and bloating of the government is only going to get worse, we do have the immeasurable price tag of Obamacare. You already have a shortage of nurses and doctors and even beds. So you have a static supply. And this supply is shrinking fast, you have the “boomers” getting old and dropping out of the workforce, and medical professional can’t keep up with the attrition. But through well though policy that makes everyone tingle in the pants, you have decided to tax the system with another 15,000,000 patients, or increase the demand. Now anyone with econ 101 can tell you that limited supply with an increase of demand will drive the price up.

Add to this that there is a shortage, and that hospitals and clinics will be paying a premium or higher wages to retain or recruit talent. The cost of the education and licensure will rise as well. The whole thing is then going to be administered by state agencies working as an insurance marketplace? And these state body’s will be regulated by oh yea a new government agency.
So the government is going to force everyone to get insurance, there is incentive for employer’s to drop coverage, the penalty is low for now. The government wants you to get on their plan, it will make socialized health care easier to force onto the populous. They want to shred the private insurers as well, those profits could really fill someone’s entitlement coffers. But the guise of cost savings is 100% a lie, it will cost more, and these 15Million aren’t physical specimens of healthy living. You don’t eat the most balanced and nutritious meals with an EBT card.