to own the cons wrote:

Too embarrassed to say wrote:

This is not a troll post. I know it is going to sound like one but it is not.

I have had health care from my employer since I started working. My father is in his late 50s and against Obamacare. I asked him how he could be against free healthcare. He said it's not free and you get fined if you don't have it and any other insurance. I didn't really have a response for this and I barely see my father because of Distance (the game, not the mileage haha just kidding). I could probably look all this up but I lurk here and this place has a unique way of discussing things. How does it work? You pay the government each month for healthcare? No wonder people hate it if that's the case?

It's not free. It's not even government healthcare. It's a subsidy to your health insurance, allowing you to pay what would otherwise be obscene premiums by assuming part of the cost for you. If you don't have health insurance you (used) to get fined but the Republicans passed legislation last year removing the tax penalty for not having it.

There are other parts to the law that are nice-- it removed lifetime caps on coverage (so if you are a vegetable for 40 years they can't wheel you out and dump you on the curb because your insurance said "Fuck this, not paying for this vegetable anymore") and "pre-existing condition" denial for chronic issues. It also banned short-term, cheapass high deductible plans, which was a mistake (also removed by Republicans). There are parts of it that are shit.

It definitely doesn't give you "Free healthcare".