I don't doubt that for a moment, BB. I think the plan is intended to be ineffective, because its main purpose is to increase the profits of health insurance companies by forcing more people to buy private health insurance. Both the public AND the government will thus pay more money to the private health insurance industry...and that will mean higher "taxes" (both in the direct and the indirect sense).

Obama isn't the architect of any of this, though. He's just the puppet who dances on the strings, in my opinion. He's a very well-spoken puppet. In that respect he differs from George Bush radically, but I fear the end result will be quite similar. The rich and privileged will become richer and more privileged.