Obamacare Protects the Free Market: Why Repealing It Would Mean a Return to Socialism

Obamacare Protects the Free Market: Why Repealing It Would Mean a Return to Socialism
Benjamin Feinblum in Politics, 2012 Elections 8 hours ago

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...Polls show high approval of most individual parts of the law. When asked about the entire law together people hate it. Political misinformation campaigns have convinced people that socialism is taking over America.

I will address the socialism argument first and then address some of the other critics concerns.

...Where did we come from before the ACA? And where are we now?

Prior to the Affordable Care Act the costs of uninsured free riders skipping their medical bills were socialized. Rather than going bankrupt, hospitals increase the prices for the insured. Hospitals split the losses with the government. The government then taxes you higher to socialize the losses.

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Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is a call for a return to that socialist system.

Socialism is - a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, or capital, land., in the community as a whole. (Dictionary.com)

The ACA ends the spreading of costs for unpaid bills through the community (socialism) to you that led to higher health insurance payments and higher taxes. It does this by using a method that Mitt Romney pioneered as governor of Massachusetts, which now has 98% of its residents insured. Romney even ran his first presidential campaign on his method for fixing the free rider problem. ..

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...So should we repeal Obamacare?

Only if you want a return to the free rider problem that socializes the costs and makes you pay for the uninsured.

Only if you want to lose the Patient's Bill of Rights. If you want insurance companies to be able to drop your coverage when you get sick.

Only if you want 2500 pages of things that benefit you removed.

Only if you want the inefficient Medicare Advantage socialist program put back into place.

Only if you want the deficit to add 100 billion dollars more over this decade that the Affordable Care Act saves.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act is a return to socialism that I don't support...

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