The Affordable Health Care Act

Okay I want to touch on a few of your points and clarify and or offer rebuttals 1.Obama Care has led to people loosing insurance and only has 2 million subscribers After looking at your source I found no sources that concerned with your claim and instead found that if obamacare was repealed 10.3 million Americans could loose their health insurance so unless you find a source as credible as politifact on politics I will assume that your statement is incorrect. Next your news report as far as I can see is incorrect because according to a website I visited enrollment is at 15 million http://www.politifact.com... http://obamacarefacts.com... 2.Premiums are increasing You are correct that premiums are increasing but all experts point to this trend merely being a continuation of American premium hikes because premiums have gone up but they have remained consistent with the normal increases in premiums before obamacare and in may cases have gone down from the average increase in rate hikes http://www.politifact.com... 3. Obamacare effects a lot of people No it does not because Obamacare only provides health insurance to 1/6 of Americans not 1/3 as you said I did but you are correct in saying that this covers a lot of Americans because 57 million people is quite a lot. I would also ask for a source for the numbers you are getting on premiums (here is a source on the doctor in the YouTube video http://theincidentaleconomist.com...) 4. Government shouldn't be able to penalize you for not having health insurance I can see how this might upset you but the government already mandates you to get different types of coverage. For instance in Massachusetts, the state I live in, you need to get health insurance before you drive. In my opinion a government mandate that everyone needs to get health insurance is important because it stops buyer discrimination for insurance companies that used to not insure people that had preexisting conditions and it helps Americans pay for outrageous healthcare expenses that America has. the only way to stop people from manipulating this system by only getting health insurance when your sick would be to add a economic penalty to stop people from only buying healthcare when they are sick. So unless you think that people with preexisting conditions shouldn't have medicare the economic penalty is the only way to enforce this system. 5. The government is taking over healthcare and socialism is scary No the government is not taking over health care obamacare is a standardized healthcare market that uses private insurance companies to cover Americans. The only way that obamacare effects these companies is by forcing the to take people who have preexisting conditions and by providing subsides to people who cannot afford healthcare. So I say again this is not the government taking over healthcare they are merely regulating it. 6.how is penalizing people who can't afford health insurance going to make it easier for them to buy insurance if their premiums are increasing astronomically? For people ha cannot afford health insurance the government offers subsidies to those who cannot afford it. This is one of the most basic tenants of the law. Also as said previously healthcare premium rates are going up at levels comparable to healthcare increases before obamacare. That is how buying healthcare is easier under obamacare. 7. Companies shouldn't need to provide health insurance Businesses for a long time now have been forced to give people health insurance. Obamacare in its relation to company insurance is the minutia like providing contraceptives for women. So unless businesses have secretly been hiding that the were bankrupt hay are not because businesses already had to provide healthcare http://obamacarefacts.com... 8. this is a violation of our right of free speech in the form of forcing us to do something against our will the government can do that just as they can draft you into the military, force you to get car insurance, search you at airports, tax you, and many other actions that you have no control over. So unless you are implying that fines and taxes are unconstitutional oabamacare is constitutional 9. Charities should help the poor afford health care, or take care of them when they can. Government should be giving no hand-outs, only hand-ups. Please tell me of any charities that offer free surgeries and or expensive and complex medical surgery. If so I'm impressed but their are none that I'm aware of. Also what on earth is a hand up because I quite honestly have no clue what that is. And Americas record on using charity for government crisis's have not worked. For instance in he great depression President Hoover tried to address the great depression with charity this failed utterly. 10.Europe is bad so lets not copy them Europe often has medical procedures that cot 10 to 20 times less than that in America while spending less in taxes on medicare. so unless you want medicare to be expensive I would aspire to be more like Europe. http://www.nytimes.com...; http://www.commonwealthfund.org... (Please read these sources they explain a lot) 11. Britain has bad health insurances Yes it does when I say Europe I do not mean every country in Europe to be more specific I think Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Spain have better healthcare systems due to lower costs. 12. we have the best healthcare system on earth No we do not unless of course you think America should have medicine be 20 times more expensive in America because in is America for instance lipitor in New Zeland costs 6 dollars in the US its 124 dollars http://www.nytimes.com...; 13. Obamacare costs a lot I'e already addressed this issue but the source you use for your argument I find quite ironic because the politifact quote you used actual says that a increase in medicare prices due o obamacare is mostly false. Please read it if you don't believe me. http://www.politifact.com... 14. Your plan for medicare Your plan has so many problems but the most overarching problem is that you think capitalism can fix medicare it cannot. I will now argue this points using capitalism. I have a question that is capitalism cause for me its trading money to gain a commodity with the value of the commodity dictated by the supply and demand. Healthcare is the worlds greatest demand because almost no one wants to die. Because the commodity of not dying is so valuable and you can't go around and seek competition on prices you with pay what you think your life is worth. And seeing as life is quite a valuable commodity people pay through the nose to get it. Thus your solution would not work on the premise of the free market. In my opinion the only way to fix medicare is to have the government act as the negotiator for American medical patients in order to allow capitalism to work because the commodity system on life would be replaced by a desire to get the worlds biggest contract for medical care and would thus lower prices competitive to get patients. This is the solution that I see for medicare. However I believe that obamacare is a step in the right direction for America.