Politicians run around like chicken little screaming “the sky is falling.” They do this until they get what they want. In this instance, government run healthcare was going to save people’s lives. It was going to mandate free stuff, like say, mammograms. Free mammograms. Mammograms save lives. At least they did before the government handed off the responsibility for managing the cost of them to an unelected board of bureaucrats.
Now, that thing the government said you needed every year or two after the age of forty…you don’t need that anymore, and guess what–you can’t have one.