I do not like the #ACA & I really dislike the mandate...but the system needs the mandate to function. Simply removing the mandate would be way worse. ACA needs incremental positive change or a decent replacement. The @GOP replacement was bad. Write better law.
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Who’s that guy in Augusta that says anytime something is free, someone else is paying more? That’s the mandate in a nutshell. It’s not fair for those of us who pay to carry those who don’t.
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That's a different argument. That's not whether or not it helps the poor to remove the mandate. We have adopted a sliding fee system in the US for a lot of things...roads, military, etc. Whether or not we want healthcare to be in that bundle is a philosophical one.
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Certainly you don't pay as much as a 1%er for the military that protects you the same. Whether we want healthcare to be "covered" by taxes, a mix of use & covered (like roads w/toll roads), or entirely a private service is a conversation that is incomplete.
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The ACA puts us in a weird hybrid where it doesn't say the government is putting it in the bundle, it just makes it illegal not to have it. (More than that of course since it's thousands of pages) There are carrots (subsidies) & sticks (tax penalties).
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