No, the American people haven't been very keen on instilling civics, values, American History into our young people, so now we have two generations of virtually functional idiots.
You mean like people who say, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare"?
Yeah, those g-ddammned socialists!! Oh, wait, those were Tea Party freaks who said that....
If you judge Medicare and Obamacare to be equally benign Government programs you haven't been reading the fine print.
There were more than a few Republicans who voted for Medicare.
Why?
Because it was a useful and much needed answer to the medical costs to our senior citizens employing services from 30 different private insurers.
With Obamacare no one knows what the ACA bill was about since they couldn't read it before voting on it.
But the ACA does have a provision to become a single payer system once the insurance companies withdraw from the rigged game they could not win even from the start. Why they went along with it even knowing that healthy younger people were less inclined to sign up for it is a mystery.
The private insurers were going to lose money but I guess they believed the Obama administration would create some bit of leverage to force the recalcitrant youth to sign the **** up anyway!
Well, when the private insurers all bow out (as expected) the Government (licking its chops) will be waiting to collect your premiums, administer your plan and in so doing will have access to ALL your health records and will have control of your health care.
And when you control a peoples health care, you control those people.
And THAT is the difference.
With Obamacare the Government winds up being in total control over us.
Just like you trust your buddies, you wouldn't trust them with your ATM and your PIN number.
Well, you may trust the Government. Even one which has made it very clear they aren't above ******* up the system so badly that even Obama himself had to try 'tap dancing' the Obamacare computer problem away.
But when the POTUS lies to the American people for his own political gain, and he shifts the blame for mistakes and finagles the law to serve his own personal desires and uses executive orders and arbitrarily revises bills already signed into law, when this POTUS uses departments of the Government to do his personal bidding and more...
When those types of things begin happening before your very eyes and the President's team of proven and accomplished liars are out to fool and take advantage of the people, how can anyone placidly give their sovereignty to a Government so undeserving of our trust?
The ACA is designed to transfer sovereignty from the people to the Government.
We were designed by the Founding Fathers to be the owners of our government.
Our elected reps we send to D.C. are supposed to be our hired hands. Our employees.
Well, giving our trust to the Govt. to handle our medical billing and records and determining whose illnesses and conditions will or won't be covered and to what degree is asking for trouble.
Govt. is not the kindly group of people like at your Bank or the Netflix website.
Government is a tiger. And if you do not control it, it will control you.
Do not give the government your power by giving them control of your medical care and costs.
ACA was designed to give the government control of the American people.
Once they have control they will never voluntarily relinquish it back to us.
If we lose it now it is lost forever.