> Medical care is not subject to normal market forces, nobody shops around in an emergency.

Oh, please! In an emergency you are going to go to the closest available hospital. As simple as that.

> nobody tells you which practitioner you can see in the UK where we have had socialised medicine for decades.

Well, that's not how Obamacare works. What's the point of making the comparison of two approaches that are so different.

Let's just look at cost.

How much would a healthy family of four pay for the NHS? Is there a deductible?

Before Obamacare my family paid $600 per month with a $5,000 annual deductible. We got great care and got to choose where to go and which doctors we see. With Obamacare our monthly premium increases to $1,400 per month and our deductible to $10,000. Also, our choices at nearly every level in the process of receiving care have become limited. There are questions about which of the local hospitals we will, effectively, be "assigned" to by attrition and which doctors we might not be able to see. The premium + deductible structure pretty much means that we stand to spend over $26,000 per year on medical care. And, BTW, this isn't a catastrophic plan.

With Obamacare the government is effectively, at a minimum, taking an extra $800 per month from us and in the worst case an extra $14,600. And this is for worst care and choices than we had with our prior system.

Taking $15,000 a year from a family's budget, when multiplied by potentially millions of families across the nation will have serious consequences. That's a lot of money that will not be available for purchasing. That extra computer, uprgading the old car, intalling wood flooring in the house or taking a vacation simply will not happen. And this will be the case with millions of families and individuals across the nation.

You see, you can call me whaever you want. Extreme right wing libertarian moron. That's fine. Shoot the messenger until you are happy. Now let's discuss facts and numbers and real world effects. When we look at facts what i am saying isn't theatrics from a moron but rather a screams from someone saying "the emperor has no clothes!".

Besides, there's also this:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/08/opinion/la-oe-dalrym...

> none of your posts are you in any way opposed to massive defence spending, only healthcare. And you call others 'sheep'!!

That is utterly false. I have not brought up the military in his thread but I have in the past. Our military spending is sickening. Our wars are disgusting. And a good deal of our foreign aid is simply wrong and ought to be discontinued. Not only do I want our government to leave us alone, i want them to leave everyone else alone.

Our military spending has distorted our economy in ways that are hard to describe and probably even quantify. This is why I love Obamacare as the example that pulled the curtains back to let everyone see how government really works. Pick a number for how much was spent on the website. It's ridiculous. And they are still spending untold millions to fix it. Now imagine all military spending being equally bloated, wasteful and inefficient and ineffective.

Add it all up and it is easy to conclude that our government is causing us damage at every level and at a monumental scale. And don't get me started on patents. Care to quantify how much damage just one government agency, the US Patent and Trademark Office, has done to our economy, industry and progress?

Call me a moron if you must. You still have to face the facts behind my arguments.