What are the pros, cons of Obamacare?
I can't see good past the bad. Because the bad is so Liberty destroying and an economic drain/strain. 1. It compels you to buy. Upon pain of punishment. It's one thing to be compelled to buy car insurance. Because you are using a non constitutionally covered device that may damage, injure or kill on public roads. OR that said car technically belongs to the lender and you must cover it against loss. It's quite another to be compelled to buy because you yourself may be sickened or injured simply because you exist. You do not technically belong to The Reich and do not risk harming others by said existence. 2. It compels the healthy, those who least use/need to share the cost with those who use/abuse the system the most. 3. It raises the cost of everyone's insurance. Because of the simple fact that the more who are insured the more who will use the healthcare system. Which isn't built to a standard where there is more healthcare workers and equipment than demand. It never was. Hence, the cost of care skyrockets as it becomes less readily available. Because more materials and people are needed than production and education can produce. 4. The rising insurance cost automatically produces a demand that government make insurance single payer. The exact same as there is now a demand that college be government paid. The first system America entirely socialized with a system of public unionized employees included. 4. Our healthcare system is also moving rapidly into making all healthcare workers public employees and unionized. And I'm sure you already have an idea of just how worthless and over paid (and unfireable) so many public union employees are. Because they are compelled to operate and think as the government orders and trains them to do.
How are propaganda and blackmail similar?
Blackmail is when 1 party forces another to perform actions against their will by means of threats of public embarrassment. The threat itself is not limited to public embarrassment however it is the most common. An example would be if I told you to give me 1000 dollars or else I would tell everyone about your affair. Propaganda is when a party (typically a political or corporate group) provides false information or limited true information in order to influence public opinion. I'll give you 2 examples for this one. One example would be when the North Korean government publishes a false report to it's citizens that the North Korean heath industry has been named the best in the world, causing citizens to maintain faith in their great nation. Another example would be if a car company advertises the awards for fuel efficiency on their vehicle, but they leave out the poor safety ratings. Sorry that so many people are idiots who have to turn everything into a political statement.
What is so bad about Obamacare?
I am not American, but from I what I read Obamacare is just a way to improve the healthcare system and make sure everyone has access to healthcare. What is so bad about it?
Will Obamacare cover Viagra?
No, Viagara is not offered as a free entitlement under Obamacare as the birth control pill is. When it comes to services specific to gender, There are many specific to women that are covered, but those specific to men are for the most part omitted.(1) What I found interesting in many posts yesterday, is that many feminists stated rather emphatically that men are free to get cervical exams, mammograms etc. as if this somehow meets the health care needs of males. I should think it obvious that those services are specific to women's needs, but apparently that's not so obvious. Note Obamacare, like most entitlement programs does not publish all the possible things that are not covered by that legislation. Like any other legislation or health care coverage if, it focuses on what it does cover. Those things not listed as covered care under Obamacare, are - well not covered under Obamacare. That should be obvious. Again - see source 1. ~
Why do so many people dislike Obamacare?
Many people that ‘hate’ Obamacare, love their insurance under the Affordable Care Act, not realizing they are one and the same.There has been a concerted propaganda effort regarding the ACA under the name ‘Obamacare’, and so those who regularly consume ‘news’ and entertainment sources that engage in this propaganda have come to believe that Obamacare is some horrendous useless thing.For others - they misunderstand the source of increase in costs for their medication. A friend of mine recently ranted on his hatred of Obamacare due to the increase in insulin prices. When I pointed out that this was actually due to oligopoly pricing abuse by pharmaceuticals and the price increases he was complaining about had started long before Obama took office, he insisted it was due to Obama and the ACA.For others they are severely obese and the ACA allows employers to charge a higher premium (extra 50$ a month) for those that are severely obese (perfectly rational since this is largely behavioural and this behaviour results in dramatically increased risk for all sorts of chronic diseases - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.).There are also those who have had increases in their insurance prices from the ACA - namely those who were gambling that they and their family wouldn’t need anything other than extremely basic health care and would have gone bankrupt if a severe illness occurred.There are some (a tiny minority) who oppose it on ideological reasons - that there be a purchase mandated by the government.That isn’t to say that the ACA is perfect, but most of the hatred is based on disinformation or based on things that are actually features.
Why do people who rely on Obamacare want to repeal it?
The irony is that most people don’t (it’s more popular than it’s ever been). The reason that many individuals thought “Obamacare” was bad was twofold:The GOP spent tens of millions of dollars telling you it was the worst thing since unsliced bread, andObama’s name was attached to it and that immediately makes millions of people hate it because, well, those people hate(d) Obama. As a matter of fact - many people thought the ACA and Obamacare were different things. That’s how propaganda works.Are there legitimately things wrong with the ACA? Totally. Have some people’s premiums gone up? Yep (but they were going to go up anyway). Have some people hated the “fine” that came with it if they didn’t get insurance? Totally, but mostly because they are healthy and don’t want to pay for anything until they get sick. It was never meant to be the full, final, perfect solution. It was meant as an incremental step forward and it absolutely had to be incremental given the stonewalling of the GOP, but also because moving toward single payer disrupts a massive industry and absolutely should be done incrementally.The sad part of all of this is that it is blatantly evident that the GOP never had anything even remotely close to figured out about an actual system that could be comparable (dare I say they never even really put any work into coming up with something better - they spent that energy coming up with anti-ACA ads instead?). They have literally had 7 years to figure it out and you’ve seen what they’ve had to offer - not only basically nothing, but even worse - laws that would literally kill tens of thousands of Americans a year and bankrupt countless more. They ran ads about how terrible the ACA was, they attached it to “democrats” using partisan negative rhetoric, and people bought that they would have something “better” - and here we are. If it weren’t such horrific topic with real people’s lives on the line (both literally and figuratively), it would be satisfying to see that when they opened their kimono, there was really nothing there.p.s. I will never understand people that voted for someone who said he was going to take it away…and then are surprised that they are trying to take it away.