Good grief. I'm from California, and in the past couple of years I've started a couple of companies. We've been successful and now have a handful of full-time employees in addition to the usual assortment of contractors. Reading through this material -- and seeing the level cost and complexity required to sort out one's healthcare situation -- makes me incredibly glad that I emigrated to London to do it.

I'm reasonably sure that Obamacare is in fact an improvement upon the status quo, but it's still an absurd level of overhead to inflict upon either individuals or businesses. It's clearly in society's interests to have a healthy populace. Everybody benefits when the "are you covered?" checklist looks like this:

1.) Are you a human being? [ ] No -- Sorry! [ ] Yes -- Great, you're covered.

And the premium/co-pay policy looks like this:

2.) Can you walk out of here under your own power? [ ] No -- Stick around and we'll see what we can do. [ ] Yes -- Excellent; now put away your wallet and scram.

Honestly the NHS has its problems, but it's saved my life at least once, and made my businesses far easier to get off the ground, and I'd never again live in a country that doesn't have something like it.