What is the real, underlying reason that hardline conservatives in America dislike the Affordable Care Act?

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Arthur Wright Profile
Arthur Wright , Florida Paralegal with a BS degree in Social-Psychology, answered

It was because the POTUS and a California Senator who wrote it and shoved it down our throats without the permission of the American Voters and lied about to get passed by the US Congress. It contained many, many secretive bills that gave Obama his unconstitutional powers that he is using now against the US so it was not just the ACA or Obamacare but the combination of many illegal things, and the start of the huge riff between the American people and DC that now exists.

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DDX Project
DDX Project commented
Wait what? Where did the word racism come from? Lol
DDX Project
DDX Project commented
Too much Fox News for you buddy.
Nov Noveltman
Nov Noveltman commented
No, I honestly would like to know the reason. They say it's not racism, so let's take them at their word and go from there. Who defends insurance giants with so much of their energy? Why choose corporations over people?
Shinypate one Profile
Shinypate one answered

1. It is expensive. The government pays for some, and extracts money from others.

2. It was supposed to insure 30 million uninsured. It is struggling to insure 10 million and it gives away 6 million of the policies.

3. It's unpopular. 189 polls have been done since it passed, and only one poll was over 50% approval, the week after it passed when the news was relentlessly positive. Republicans can read a poll. If you want them to support it, the people have to support it, and they do NOT like taxes and mandates.

4. Businesses say it's retarding employment.

www.cheatsheet.com/politics/why-do-americans-still-hate-obam

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Nov Noveltman
Nov Noveltman commented
Let's not pay too much attention to what Corporate America hates about the law. They hate with vigor whatever takes a dime away from their precious bottom line. They're not for us Shiny. They're not for you either.
Shinypate one
Shinypate one commented
Ok. Let's ignore what business says and see how effective that is as a tactic. After all, none of us work for them, none of us buy their products, and none of us get insurance from them....
Charles Davis Profile
Charles Davis answered

Tax

Corey The Goofyhawk Profile
Corey The Goofyhawk , Epic has no limit, answered

My co-pay was $20 for each office visit before the "Affordable" Care Act. After the "Affordable" Care Act my co-pay is now $160 per office visit. I don't think our government understands what "affordable" means. Good luck to you.

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DDX Project
DDX Project commented
Checked your blog =p. Plus you were complaining about the ACA. So it made sense.
Corey The Goofyhawk
Corey The Goofyhawk commented
Hey, cool! There's too not much on my blog just yet, but I hope you saw something you enjoyed. There are far worse places to live than NC. Overall, I'm happy living here.
DDX Project
DDX Project commented
I used to have a friend in Fayettville who I played video games with. There's always a worse place. I was just referring to the healthcare mandate.
DDX Project Profile
DDX Project answered

Guess where hardline conservatives live? Usually states that refuse to expand medicare and the general populace suffer for it.

While your deductibles and surface level "at-a-glance" numbers you see
may have gone up, IN GENERAL, your new plan is a stronger/better
worded policy as a whole, most notably being higher limits in the event
of a catastrophic loss.

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Shinypate one
Shinypate one commented
Nationally, nearly four million poor uninsured adults fall into the “coverage gap” that results from state decisions not to expand Medicaid, meaning their income is above current Medicaid eligibility but below the lower limit for Marketplace premium tax credits. These individuals would have been newly-eligible for Medicaid had their state chosen to expand coverage.

Four million people living in states with 180 million in population. It would be safe to say that they probably get their healthcare from hospitals. We are paying for it in one way or another, so it's not much of a savings.

In the past year, the number of people falling into the coverage gap has declined as more states have taken up the Medicaid expansion. Since September 30, 2013, four states (Ohio, New Hampshire, Indiana and Pennsylvania) have opted to expand their Medicaid programs, extending ACA-related assistance to approximately 760,000 uninsured nonelderly adults. I suspect Florida may yet do so (see here http://obamacarefacts.com/2015/04/22/florida-medicaid-expansion/), and possibly Georgia, after the SCOTUS decision.

A quarter of people in the coverage gap reside in Texas, which has both a large uninsured population and very limited Medicaid eligibility. Eighteen percent live in Florida, ten percent North Carolina, and eight percent in Georgia.
Nov Noveltman
Nov Noveltman commented
"State decisions not to expand Medicare" -- Let's put blame where it belongs shall we? And further: Why did Republican governors fight against ACA's implementation? It was all a horrible game of politics, where Republicans YET AGAIN attempted to undermine the Obama Administration.

The rest of what you had to say sounds more like support. Curious.
Shinypate one
Shinypate one commented
So you blame for every evil in Obamacare on Republicans because they don't want it? That's like blaming global warming on people who won't buy petroleum products. Not every problem with Obamacare is due to people who aren't buying.
4 million people, that's your number. You already have 6 million adds to the medicare rolls. I get it that you want more people on Obamacare. I just hear from people it's not that great as insurance goes. 

There is a reason why there are a lot of people uninsured, and they will remain uninsured because either they don't want it, don't need it, cannot afford it, or are sharing the risk through other means.

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