The Affordable Care Act should be repealed immediately.

Pro says: "1) The non-partisan CBO has projected that insurance premiums will rise by 27 to 30 percent for the average family. This is a direct violation of the promise that Obama made during his campaign that the price of insurance would actually go down by $2500, on average, per family. This is due to several factors, including the fact that 60% of current plans don't meet the minimum standards for Obamacare's policies and the issue that the inability of insurance companies to refuse coverage for "pre-existing conditions" negates any incentive people may have to get health insurance until they need it, because it's still cheaper than the fine for the majority of people currently without insurance, which means that the people that the law had intended to subsidize the costs of increased care outlays by the insurance companies aren't pooling their risk with the higher risk patients. This drives up premiums as well, which makes insurance less accessible to most Americans." I say: I agree that there are flaws in the ACA, but the solution is to scrap it, reform it, and put it up for a vote, not to just close your mind to the whole matter. Pro says: "2) The next way that health care will be less accessible to Americans is the simple fact that there may not be enough doctors to meet the demand for health care. After a little more research, I found a more recent poll that shows that up to 60% of doctors currently practicing are either seeking to quit medicine or would do so today if they felt like they could, as a direct result of Obamacare. There are more bureaucratic requirements, more restrictions on the way we practice medicine (I am a practicing family physician), and higher pressure to see more patients and do more with fewer resources than ever before. Up to 52% of physicians have limited their acceptance of Medicare and Medicaid patients because of the terrible reimbursement rates of those programs, and Obamacare seeks to expand the rolls of Medicaid to cover even more people. According to the survey, 100,000 physicians are planning to either close their practices, switch to concierge medicine (which doesn't accept insurance), or cut back the number of patients they will see. This is going to exacerbate the already critical shortage that exists in rural areas - and other areas all around the country - of physicians, especially primary care providers. Considering that we have 75 million Baby Boomers about to transition into the Medicare system which is already overtaxed and in need of more accepting physicians, this is a very worrisome number and definitely shows that access to medical care will be much less available... not more available, as Con has expressed." I say: Part of the problem is an over taxed economy. I promise you that if you scrap all taxes save an income tax of say 50% for this example, that will help part of the problem. You see the thing is that when overtaxation occurs, the price of everything goes up until everything is out of control. I obviously do not support a libertarian model, but a 50% income tax and no other should help. Pro says: "3) Thousands of companies are cutting their employees' hours to under 30 hours per week to avoid the massive fines incurred for not providing health insurance coverage for their employees, when they're not just outright firing people. Even when they are not willing to cut back on the hours, they are opting in many cases to simply pay the fine, which is much less than the actual cost of the insurance, which as I have demonstrated earlier, has dramatically increased. Now, not only do they *not* have coverage, but they also have to live with a 25% pay cut or more due to the restriction on hours. The lack of wages and the unwillingness of employers to provide assistance with coverage combine to make insurance much less accessible to even middle-class people who had previously had access to coverage." I say: Again, I support the reform and revote of the ACA, not the repeal thereof. I am against overtaxation. Pro says: "I wish that I were exaggerating. The truth of the matter is that the Medical Device Tax that is part of the ACA has stifled research and development in several major fields of inquiry in medical technology because the companies don't want to pay the tax. Furthermore, there is nothing in the ACA which will actually help doctors do their jobs better or reduce the cost of medicine. In fact, the only thing that is happening in medicine is that there is more paperwork to do, less time to see a larger number of patients, and more regulations on what procedures, tests, and treatments we are "allowed" to do on our patients by an unelected set of Bureaucrats who know nothing about medicine. The ACA will not put people back to work... in fact, as I mentioned above, it is putting millions of people *out* of work, and it is sucking money out of the economy on multiple levels. Will Con please tell me how this is a good thing?" I say: Again, I am saying that the ACA has flaws, but the solution is to get ride of the bad stuff and keep the good. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as they say. Pro says: "Sitara did not adequately address my point regarding the many broken promises of Obamacare. Her only rebuttal is, " I am not saying that the ACA is perfect, but it is far better than what we have now." I heartily disagree, based on the points I have mentioned above which have not been adequately rebutted and the ones I will provide below, which further strengthen my case. The current system isn't perfect, but Obamacare takes all the parts of our healthcare system that make the practice of medicine burdensome, inefficient, expensive, and unpleasant... and makes them all worse. Not a single measure in the entire 2700 page bill... or the 28,000 pages - and counting - of regulations that have come from the law has done anything to increase the quality, availability, or efficiency of medicine in this country." I say: Excuse me but I am trying my best to be a good debater and address your points. I have two windows open so that I do not miss anything. Now back to business. Dear God, how many times do i have to say that the solution is to fix it, not to trash it. I most certainly do not support over regulation no matter who does it, but the fact remains that many people cannot afford healthcare due to preexisting conditions and/or financial status. Some people have over 100 dollars worth of medications per month. The healthcare industry is already over regulating when they tell you what meds you can and cannot take. My insurance was supposed to approve one of my meds for 12 months, but they only approved it for 1 month, and it was a hurdle to get them to cover it at all, so I know all about over regulation. The solution is reform, not repeal, as our healthcare industry is broken. Pro says: "The Obama administration, in violation of the law he signed, has refused to enforce a key portion of the law requiring businesses to provide insurance for their employees, which was to go into effect in 2014. This is a part of the law that has no ambiguity: there is a hard deadline for employers to begin covering employees: Jan 1, 2014. In refusing to enforce this part of the law, Mr. Obama has arrogated to himself legislative powers to change a law that has already been written and signed into law, which he does not have the authority to do. If he were to acknowledge that the law was unconstitutional, this might be defensible, because the President does not have a duty to enforce laws which he believes are in violation of the Constitution. However, since he put the case before the Supreme Court, who found (much to my shock) that the law was constitutional, he is under a direct obligation to enforce every part of the law. He is refusing to do this, but only on a selective basis. Specifically, he is allowing businesses to avoid the devastating financial impact of compliance with the law until after the 2014 elections. I believe this is to shield his Democratic congressional colleagues from the backlash that will happen when the measure is finally enforced as it should be." I 100% oppose that corruption. I am one liberal who is not afraid to speak the truth about the Democratic Party of America. Seriously, look up the effects of over taxation.