The Affordable Health Care Act

So I think we should start of are discussion on what exactly the affordable healthcare act is and its three vital components The first is the mandate for people to give people health insurance to all of the 47 million Americans that did not have healthcare when obamacare is passed. This was for a variety of reasons whether unemployed, not working for a big company to expensive or preexisting conditions. This is not the government forcing people to take government health insurance it is setting up a standardized market for people to get health insurance. This I cannot emphasis more does not effect all Americans in fact it only effects one third of them. However, the mandate that insurance companies have to take everyone could lead to everyone only getting healthcare when they were sick thus driving up premiums. To avoid this the government instituted a tax that takes 1% of your income if you do not get health insurance. This stops people from taking advatage of obamacare and using healthcare only when their sick.However if you put a economic penalty to people who don't want health insurance you inevitably get people who cannot afford insurance. This is when the government offers subsides to people who can't afford health insurance. Thus to put it simply obamacare is a three legged stool with the uninsured American being held up by these legs 1. Government mandated health insurance everybody needs to get health insurance from a provider whether public or private (5/6 of Americans already have health insurance so their not effected) 2. Tax of 1% of your income to prevent people from taking advantage of obamacare's mandate that forces private companies to take all people no matter the preexisting condition. 3. Government subsides to help poor people who cannot afford health insurance (This is a credible source its from a doctor) In my opinion this is a good start to a American healthcare reform but I believe we must become more like Europe in order to thrive into the future. You may be scared of socialism but unless the police department, roads, and social security is evil you already have had experience with socialism. In my opinion the reason that healthcare costs are so high is because in the case of medical expenses capitalism does not work ( by the way I'm normally a hue fan of capitalism). This is because it is impossible to put a value on your life thus you will pay through the nose to get it. Because of or governments lack of intervention we pay twice as much in healthcare taxes in comparison to European countries and why operations can be 10 and even 20 times more expensive in America. In Europe the government haggles with private companies to get the lowest price for their citizens. This is not done in America and allows healthcare providers to force us to pay exorbitant rates to give us healthcare. However, by allowing all Americans to get healthcare we are taking a step toward the solution but we still have a long way to go. http://www.commonwealthfund.org... http://www.nytimes.com... I invite you to make your case on to why obamacare is bad as well as solutions to the healthcare crisis in the United States good luck