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There are lots of reasons to be against nationalized healthcare. Some for practical reasons, others for legal reasons -- just because you want something doesn'
by dantheman 14y ago
There are lots of reasons to be against nationalized healthcare. Some for practical reasons, others for legal reasons -- just because you want something doesn't mean it can skip the legal process which is what obamacare tries to do in a lot of places.
One simple reason to be against it is that the current implementation is crazy bad and has no way of dealing with costs and is anti-democratic. It creates outside bodies that don't answer to congress, etc.
- m0th87 14y agoCitations needed. The primary argument used against ACA's constitutionality was struck down by the supreme court [1]. And there already exists at least 50 government agencies that reserve the right to pass regulations without congressional approval [2]. 1: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-affordable-care-act_n_1623122.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-affor... 2: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/fedregulations.htm http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/fedregulations.ht...
- dantheman 14y agoUnfortunately I couldn't find a great text example but here are two sources on: IPAB More recent: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/media-highlights-tv/cato-institute-event-evaluating-dodd-franks-cfpb-ola-provisions http://www.cato.org/multimedia/media-highlights-tv/cato-inst... From one year ago (shorter ~ 7 minutes): http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/ipab-obamacareas-next-constitutional-hurdle http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/ipab-obamacarea...