Mark Steyn's article today gives a good insight on the dangers of Obamacare:

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2528/26/

This statement encapsulates what's at stake:

The Obama project is not difficult to understand. It’s been accomplished in many other parts of the western world: If you expand the dependent class and the government class, you can build a permanent governing coalition, and stick the beleaguered band in the middle with the tab.