That's what the ACA is all about! Paying for your own healthcare.
YOU want your employer to pay for it, you moocher.
Oh, wait - you're probably jobless, as well as brainless and dickless.
Some how, the right forgets that fact.
The Democrats are the
actual Party of Personal Responsibility.
So the personal responsibility route is demanding that those who are healthy pay for those who aren't? Personal responsibility demands that I buy more insurance than I need or want in order to subsidize the insurance costs of those who aren't earning enough to pay for their own health care?
Why doesn't personal responsibility demand that they pay for their own shit without my increased cost offsetting their lack of capacity? Sorry if that seems callous to you, but responsibility lies where it lies. Just because people who are less financially well off than I are likely to be having a rougher go of it than I, that doesn't mean that I assume some portion of their personal responsibility. No matter how strongly your dogmatic views of fairness would like to delegate that responsibility to me because I am more financially able, logic does not.
The D's are also the party of Eric Holder, who says that black children in school should be disciplined less harshly than white children to make up for the fact that, statistically, they are punished more often per capita than their white counterparts. No thought given to whether or not there actually exists a statistical gap in unruly behavior between black and white students. Of course not, even considering that as possible is probably racist. Better to simply require less personal responsibility out of our preferred class.
The D's are also the party that allow President Obama to blame people in his administration or staffers of his administrators when shit goes wrong as though that somehow abdicates his responsibility. Only a politician could get away with that shit. In the private sector, any upper level manager who surrounds himself with incompetence gets shit-canned after trying to pile Benghazi type Fast n Furious type shit on the people beneath him. At best, if proof of responsibility stops with a lesser manager, they'll give the upper level guy overseeing all of it the option to resign and keep his pension. Obama, the D president, apparently shares no such personal responsibility as those evil, lazy, greedy, good-for-nothing private sector rich bitches.
How about Jay Carney, who was proud that the ACA's subsidy cutoff points provide people in certain income ranges disincentives to work, actually saying it was good that people could decide if and how much to work without having to worry about whether or not they could afford health care. Yeah, the ACA is all -about- personal responsibility.
It's about the personal responsibility of the people you feel should pay, just not about the personal responsibility of the people you feel should benefit. Fuckin hilarious.
Not that the repubs are much better. However, simply because Republicans aren't so amazing at personal responsibility outside of their rhetoric doesn't mean your party represents it by default. Whether you like it or not, Democrat policies tend to favor the loafers at the expense of the entrepreneurs simply by virtue of it being so easy for loafers and fraudulent freeloaders to piggyback on programs designed to help the truly needy.
However, even helping the truly needy abdicates them of their personal responsibility. When you're the party of "giving shit away" to your voting demographic (and I use the term giving loosely since it ain't even your shit you give away) you can't also be the party of personal responsibility.