I don't want "polictical" answsers, but why are so many people opposed to the Affordable Care Act?

Because fox "news" told so many lies about ACA that a lot of people were convinced it's the worst thing that ever happened. Plus a lot of "red" states (20 to be exact) didn't take federal funding to expand medicaid, which made it much worse for the people in those states.

"Anyway, the Medicaid expansion was supposed to roll out to all the states. However, when the Supreme Court ruled that the ACA was constitutionally legal, they also ruled that individual states could opt out of the expansion. Suddenly, every state with a Republican governor or majority GOP legislature decided they weren’t going to accept the money. While some Republican governors and red states acquiesced and are now accepting the money, there are still 20 states refusing to participate. The main excuses used are that their states ‘can’t afford it’, even though they wouldn’t pay anything into it for three years and then only 10% after that."

The three biggest complaints about health care prior to ACA were:

1) It is too expensive

2) There is too much bureaucracy

3) Insurance companies have too much control

1) ACA does not reduce costs...it merely redistributes them so that many who had very good insurance will now be subsidizing those who did not have insurance before... In many cases, previously-insured folks will see a considerable drop in services while paying higher costs.

To me, paying the same for less is the same as a cost increase...

2) ACA adds several new layers of bureaucracy between you and your care...with you getting the bill. With national standards now being put into place for everything from treatment methods to record keeping, the amount of non-medical "busy work" will only increase.... meaning you will see more office workers and clerical workers than doctors & nurses.

3) ACA is basically a profit-sharing partnership between government and Big Insurance.... Not only do they have even greater power over your care (and care decisions) but they have the authority of the government behind them.

So honestly now.... what exactly was "reformed"...?

As an ex insurance agent, I completely understand what will happen in the medical industry in the next 20 years and in the insurance insurance industry in the next 5 years. I guess to the average American, they cannot understand why this bill is bad, but it is very bad. I thought it was a joke when they did it in Mass.

And if you are a youth, which somehow championed this law, you don't understand what you have done to yourself. The average American Youth can hardly afford to make premiums as it is, but now that you have eliminated every policy they would buy. Most American youths don't need a plan that covers the most for everything, that is what older people need. So now you pay more of the money in premiums and less to savings. Yet, somehow the youth just ate it up. My guess is that most youth work for others (employee) and are eligible for employee sponsored health insurance which is usually 50-70% lower than private plans. It sounds good to them, but they don't understand that they will have to work for someone else for the rest of their lives simply because leaving the employee system would cause too high of a insurance cost for their family.

Ted Cruz led the opposition against the Affordable Care Act after it became law. He indicated there was too much government regulation in it, and it would have a bad impact on healthcare and the national debt.

The impact on healthcare in general has been mixed. (I can point to major positives and some negatives)

There is little increase in the national debt due to the ACA.

It is true that there is a lot of new regulations, (especially in Medicare) as the government attempted to increase quality of healthcare at lower costs,

and

most of the regulations impact healthcare industry, such as physicians, hospitals, and others in healthcare as well as

an impact on healthcare insurers way of doing business -

no more Hockey game meetings or sporting event excursions, or private jets and limo rides, and healthcare insurance executive salaries need to come down, because now Healthcare insurers have to rebate all premiums not spent 80% on medical care.

From this you should be able to see who Ted Cruz represents.

Businesses were not happy as it added some regulations and some additional costs nor were insurance companies, as they lost some control. But politics did play a major role. It was a showpiece bill that Democrats had wanted for years. Republicans had developed a scorched earth approach on such legislation. Every Republican has campaigned against it the past three Congressional elections.

1. Companies that make medical devices must pay a 2.3% tax on sales (legislation is suppose to be introduced to eliminate this tax.

2. The Medicare payroll tax increases for those making over $200k a year.

3. Many companies are cutting hours of part-time employees to avoid paying for their healthcare. It costs employers too much money for Obamacare.

4. The individual mandate means that anyone without insurance will have to pay a fee.

5. 30 million people will

still be uninsured at the end of the decade.

4.

Nobody was allowed to debate the merits and negatives of it, rather Barack and a few followers rammed the 3000 pages of law through in the dead of night on a weekend. Nancy Pelosi, " We need to pass this law to find out what is in it." Now we find out it is filled with piles of crap that even most democrats are saying is beyond stupid.Basically it is a pipe dream that is a big part of Barack's stiffling any possibility of an "american dream".

Oh geez, where to begin but the short of it is it is bad, wrong, corrupt ... gives more power , control and money to politicians - Dem and Rep , doesn't provide the best care and doesn't guarantee ANY CARE .... LOL, you should really learn about things before coming to YA's and asking !

Because they don't think the government should be able to force you to buy something that you may not want or need, especially if it costs more than what you do want or need.

Because nothing in it's name is true. Rates have sky-rocketed, doctors are declining and MILLIONS of people have had their policies canceled by the companies because their policies no longer meet government standards!