Starting tomorrow the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments for & against the Affordable Healthcare Act or Obamacare. Central to the debate is the issue of individual mandates, i.e. everybody has to pay for health insurance or pay a fine.
My initial argument is that it is the right thing given we need to pay auto insurance to drive a car, so why is this different. Well it is different in that I have a choice to drive a car or not. There is not that sort of a valid choice when it comes to buying health insurance under Obamacare…except if you leave the country.
However the Republicans argue that forcing people to do buy health insurance violates our constitution. Perhaps so though I cannot believe that the forefathers had considered health insurance in the late 1700’s. So perhaps the constitutionalists are over reaching. So what I am taking away from the Republican point of view is that it is ok for me to subsidize health costs for those who cannot afford it. That to me is fundamental socialism. So I believe that the republicans are driving a convoluted socialistic agenda while accusing President Obama of the same. What do you call that?
