aww, Obama wants everybody insured...how wonderful of him...it's easy for him to do with OTHER PEOPLES MONIES
Really, Republicans are pathetic! Republicans claim to be free marketers, then prefer to promote the socialist system we have today over the ACA's free market approach? -pewsh!-
Obamacare Protects the Free Market: Why Repealing It Would Mean a Return to Socialism
Socialists and liberals dislike the Affordable Care Act because there is no single payer government run option. The ACA cuts socialist programs and it's
free market approach is too centrist for them.
Conservatives believe the ACA is the most liberal, socialist creation in mankind's history and that Obama has sown the seeds for American apocalypse.
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.
For example, uninsured diabetes patients were showing up in costly hospital emergency rooms for insulin when health crises arose rather than going to cheaper primary care doctors. Many couldn't pay those bills.
Before the Affordable Care Act, the system was socialistic, and losses were distributed throughout America.
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.
Yes, Romney created the individual mandate that the Supreme Court just upheld as constitutional and then promoted it nationally as the "Republican solution to the Democrat's free rider problem in the health care system."
View a medley of videos of Romney, including during the Republican debates promoting the individual mandate on
this youtube video.
Romney is not called an Etch A Sketch for nothing. He now attacks the mandate daily.
How does the ACA's reduction of socialism benefit you?
The costs of free riders nails your wallet in more than one way. Your insurance premiums are higher because the costs are embedded in the services you use that your insurance company covers. Your taxes are higher because the government pays for a portion of these unpaid bills and you and all tax payers are the only source of government money. The ACA removes this socialization of costs and will save you money.
How much?
Annually, you, or your employer pays about $1000 more in insurance premiums to pay for losses that free riders brought to the system. You pay about $1000 more in taxes today. So, in total around $2000 a year comes out of your wallet because of the socialist system of the past that the Affordable Care Act replaces.
What will your costs be without free riders sucking money out of your wallet?
How will employers benefit if they pay thousands and thousands less for their hundreds of employees because they aren't paying free riders who don't work for them?
This could leave employers with more money in the bank to raise your pay, or hire more workers.
Repealing Obamacare returns to a system where you and your employer foot the bill for the uninsured.
Repealing Obamacare costs you at least $2000 a year.
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