Mark Steyn has zeroed in on what is really behind this: it's about, he says, nationalizing your body. Let's not kid ourselves about what Obama is up to here. It's of a piece with all his other programs, which to me are an extension of the Marxist "plantation" system. Transfer wealth from the middle-class to the "disadvantaged," encourage MORE disadvantaged, and make sure the right people in the financial superstratrum are taken care of.
Now we have Obama, the malignant narcissist par excellence, telling us that "it's not about me." No, but it's about what you want to do to us. If Obama had honorable intentions, he wouldn't be giving Americans the bum's rush and asking them to hurry up and love a plan that remains deliberately vague and lacking in specifics. This is rank and insulting nonsense, and I can only hope that Americans will rise up against it, now or later.