It’s ALL about the future. The political advantages that price-controls and immediate access with no pre-existing conditions exclusion appear almost immediately–the physician shortages and long wait-times, degraded physical plant and filth and grime (Think the NHS in the UK) come only far later–hopefully when all the politicians who voted to impose such market constraits and financial/economic unreality are long retired and on the links in Sarasota with their own money-in-the-bank fully funded retirement plan and gold-plated tax-payer paid exclusive health plan.