Originally Posted by TheBig3

As to DJ's question of why the republicans hate it - its because their ideologies lead them to believe an embrace of the ACA will reanimate Stalin.

They can gin up any political tap dance they want, here are the facts:

1. They created this system as the free-market alternative in the late 90's to counter clinton's attempt at single-payer.

2. Its still utilizes a private system, it just mandates that have insurance. This is because costs are greatly off-set when healthy people buy in. They'd call this a ponzi-scheme, I'd call it Generation A off-setting the costs for Generation B, who will ultimately have their costs off-set by the generation that follows them.

3. Its a monopoly and operates as such, its entirely not free-market as it currently stands. They should be against this.

4. No one who pays into a joint-risk venture should be dropped when the risk manifests itself - that's the point of paying in. And its joint risk because the costs of medical treatment are too high to afford alone, and the risk itself is too sporadic to require individualized payment. (i.e. not everyone's going to get lung cancer at 37).

This flock of republicans are a bunch of tantrum-throwing crybabies who care more about their ideology than they do the country they're supposed to lead.