The Future Of Socialized Healthcare: There Is No Better Predictor Than The VA SystemMac Slavo Perhaps Armageddon hasnt arrived for those who have been allowed to keep their platinum health insurance because of exemptions granted by the administration. But for the rest of us, a Healthcare Armageddon is a foregone conclusion. Economically and financially, the new law will bankrupt an already struggling middle class who has, in many cases, seen a four-fold increase in their monthly premiums. By all accounts, life for those people is going to change dramatically in coming years because as much as 15% of their income will now be taken from them by force in the form of what the U.S. Supreme Court has classified as a mandated tax. For those with the ability to make those outrageous payments and deductibles each year, they have now entered a system run by the very same bureaucrats in charge of our countrys other government run health care programs. To understand the future of socialized health care in America we need to look no further than the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. You could ask the scores of Veterans who were pencil-pushed to the back of the line by the VA in Phoenix and Houston, except for the fact that they died while awaiting the medical assistance they were promised. And while the deaths of these service members is tragic and almost unbelievable, it is just the tip of the iceberg. Tens of thousands of our veterans are shuffled around within the system, often times for budgetary reasons or because their physician is just is simply too apathetic to care. If you need real medical care, for example, which often starts with a diagnosis that may include testing like an X-ray or an MRI, its common for VA physicians to simply ignore the patients need and jump right into prescribing pain medication. There are countless stories like this, where patients literally waited years to receive a real diagnosis, only to see their condition worsen and become inoperable by the time testing was completed because it was ignored for so long. That very system which has ignored those men and women who have put their lives on the line for this country and has promised to care for them is now the same system thats in charge of medical care under the Patient Affordable Care Act. In fact, if recent history is any guide, the mandates under Obamacare are going to be much, much worse: The death panels may not exist by name, but they most assuredly exist within the bureaucracy managed by the U.S. government. Were not making this up, its no conspiracy, and it cannot be debunked, as evidenced by the experiences of actual people currently enrolled in the Obamacare system: In simple terms: If you get cancer you will not get medical care. This is, by every possible definition, nothing short of a death panel. With the Patient Affordable Care Act, we have no other choice but the health insurance prescribed by the government. And cancer treatment is not covered according to the hospitals that are supposed to provide it! Just wait until you see what happens when these bureaucrats realize that the medical system is underfunded because healthy people, especially young adults, refuse to sign up. You see, Obamacare is, in essence, a Ponzi scheme that requires one group to continually provide funding in order to pay off the needs of another group. Despite that claimed number of 7.1 million Americans having signed up since the programs inception, a recent report indicates that as many as half of the enrollees missed their first insurance payment.One reason for this might be the exorbitant costs associated with the coverage (not counting the deductibles!). As these liabilities begin to pile up and not enough people sign up to make up the difference, guess what happens. Again, in simple terms, An Instantaneous Collapse of Obamacare Services: While the law may never be repealed and everybody who signed up thinks they still have health insurance, when it matters most there wont be a doctor on the list wholl be willing to help you. Thats what we can call a de facto death panel. They had them back in the old Communist days of the East Bloc. It wasnt by name, of course, but rather by action. People used to stand in hours-long lines just to be seen for an ear infection or to receive antibiotics, unless of course you could throw the doc a little summin-summin under the table. Then you were prioritized. Eastern Europeans and Soviet Russians who lived under the red banner prior to 1989 will tell you, You dont go to the hospital to live longer, you go there to die. This is the same system we now have in place in America, despite the fact that ear wax eating Congressman Joe Garcia claimed just this week that democrats have proven Communism works. It works great for people like the Congressman who suck off the taxpayer teat, enjoy free platinum health care coverage, and dine at premier ear wax eateries around D.C. For the rest of us, however, Communism works about as well as it did for the millions of slaves who eventually tore down the Berlin Wall to escape its stranglehold. You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this first appeared. 