Several hundred thousand residents have seen firsthand that their lives aren’t ruined by not participating in a privatized system that takes piles of their money, and in return delivers only endless reams of paperwork, substandard service and in many cases obstacles to reimbursement. They’ve seen their lives improved by avoidance of iatrogenic damage from unnecessary procedures and harmful products marketed as drugs.

When more mortgages go under, and more homes fail to sell, and more home values fall, and lay-offs rise, more citizens will evaluate what’s left of their finances because their employers will no longer be the artificial barrier, the buffer, between them and the cost of health as commercial enterprise. Their employers will no longer be there for them. And they alone will come face-to-face with the full brunt of Health Care, Inc. They too will wonder why they’re shoveling bales of money into sinkholes every month that grew larger only because their former employers where willing to pay for non-existent diseases in addition to real ones, and willing to pay for ego-stroking infrastructure that sold luxury instead of necessity.

They will not participate. There will not be a revenue stream.