I still see no facts to disprove this points, everything points to it. Go to the exchange and check for yourself. Open the policy and see what's in it mandated by obamacare and how much of it you need. The difference is pre obama care, you had the choice to shop around and the option to buy or not, now you don't. That's what's offensive.
No one in this entire thread has come up with any positive facts to defend obamacare.
The facts are;
- obamacare doesn't provide health care its a tax.
- Government has taken over the healthcare insurance marketplace.
- obamacare took away our free market health coverage.
- People have lost their coverage.
- People's premiums have escalated.
- You are forced to buy what you don't like or want.
- People are loosing their primary care doctors.
- 1/5th of the economy is taken over by the government.
- People are forced by law to risk their life savings by divulging their financial identification numbers to strangers who could turn out to be convicted felons, and it did.
- $700,000,000 and counting on a website that doesn't work after, what makes you think any of it will.
- obama care is a law that affects 300,000,000 people yet it passed on a partisan basis without ANYONE reading it and supported by lies.
- millions of people including unions and government workers want to opt out of obamacare but only those with political ties seem to be arbitrarily given that right.
I can go on and on...
Forget the rhetoric, please dispute any of these FACTS and show me FACTS that actually prove that obamacare is good for those of us forced into it unwillingly. Factual reasons, I dare you!
There's so much misinformation in this post I can't tell where to start. so I'll just post a few facts
The Government took over health care years (decades?) ago, "Obamacare" has barely changed that.
No one has to buy from the exchanges. All insurance companies have to offer policies that allow pre-existing conditions, both the most contentious and the most important single mandate.
People are losing their primary care doctors only because the insurance companies "force" them too; it's only due to "Obamacare" if you believe their rhetoric.
State (not federal) government insurance commissions do have the ability to deny price increases by insurance companies; if pressed on this, the insurance companies usually resort to virtual blackmail by saying they'll stop offering policies in that state. Of course, only the big and wealthy companies can afford to do this; hmmm...
No one knows yet whether "Obamacare" will end up being good or bad overall, but the chances are excellent it will be an improvement on what we have now. The real question is whether it will be enough of an improvement to matter much, and most indications are that it won't be. So please, anyone who has the ear of an elected Congressman or Senator urge them to help try to find a solution; don't just try to return us to the dysfunctional system that has existed.
In most states (California notably excepted) there is a huge (bigger than Medicaid) group of working poor who have been unable to afford insurance, get Medicaid or pay for their needed health care. One of "Obamacare's" stated intentions was to give some relief (and access to affordable care) to this group, but it seems unlikely to be able to accomplish this.