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Originally Posted by keysync
You need to understand the difference between health care and health insurance.
Everyone in the USA has access to health care.
Everyone in the USA has access to health insurance.
Not everyone can afford health care or health insurance.
What I see this bill doing is causing healthy people to pay into the system so the system can pay for the sick and not go bankrupt.
Redistribution of wealth. Plain and simple.
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Everyone doesn't necessarily have access to health insurance. If you have some nasty preexisting conditions insurance companies will flat out deny you. I have asthma. Some insurance companies simply will not insure me. I can still get insurance, it just doesn't cover anything asthma related. However, if you have other serious illnesses they simply will not cover you. You could potentially get on medicare or something like that, but it isn't as easy as a lot of people think.
Obamacare is not a redistribution of wealth from the wealthy to the poor. It is a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poor and the insurance companies at the same time. This will force insurance companies to cover anyone and everyone. This means they will have to take on customers that they know they will lose money on. However, with the mandate millions of healthy people who don't have insurance will be forced to buy it thus giving those insurance companies millions of new paying customers who they will make a profit on.