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How is Obamacare socialism?

If anyone thinks Obamacare is socialism, then they must either be ignorant or delusional.

Update:

Ted--then we've been a socialist country since our inception. The moment you levy the first tax, you take money from somebody and give it to somebody else.

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  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    The Socialist ideology is a theory , fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and which holds forth beliefs that have no basis in reality. Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don't matter!

    In my opinion Communism is an extreme form of Socialism..

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  • 8 years ago

    Obamacare is a Socialist program. The Free-market system is what made USA great. Socialism has a history of failure.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Socialism is remarkable for government ownership or control of the means of production.

    Obamacare is more like fascism, where government exercises control through taxation and regulation but ownership remains nominally in private hands.

    It is when their scheme of price fixing, tax raising, and regulation collapses that the politicians will predictably say "See? The private system does not work! We must have true ownership to run things right!" -- Then it will become socialist.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    as a results of fact it is basically the 1st step. The purpose is to create a single payer gadget. 0bama mentioned it himself that this replaced into in simple terms the 1st step. study section 1501 Subtitle F—Shared accountability for well-being Care section I—guy or woman accountability Sec. 1501. Requirement to maintain minimum mandatory coverage. Sec. 1502. Reporting of scientific coverage You did no longer quite believe 27 states have filed courtroom situations over the mandate while it does not exist, did you? What Alyssa fails to point is that there would choose to be a governing physique to administration the working human beings's supplies and dole out to each and each in accordance to his desires. And who would that be? the government!

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  • 8 years ago

    Obama is mandatory corporate health insurance.

    Not socialism.

    Not universal healthcare.

    Nothing like that.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it." - Ronald Reagan

  • 8 years ago

    Well, then I must be ignorant and delusional.

    "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." -Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate

    Forward.

  • 8 years ago

    'Socialism' is just one of the new words the Right uses for any idea they disagree with. They used to use 'liberal' but the just wore that word out through decades of abuse. It no longer has any meaning at all. So for the Obama era they ratcheted up the rhetoric, bring in 'socialist', 'communist', 'marxist', and 'fascist'. They throw these words around as if they all meant the same thing. Which to them they do!

    You can see right here on Yahoo Answers that 90% of the people who throw these pillowfight words at Obama have absolutely no idea what they mean. They just know it's something bad, and they hate Obama, so he must be one.

  • 8 years ago

    Obamacare steals money from people. Then it overpays for for everyone that makes below a certain amount to have "free health care". It also forces companys to have to overpay for health insurance for all their full time employees, resulting in higher prices and people getting reduced hours.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Hello Ignorant say hello to Delusional

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