“We didn’t have everyone covered, so Obamacare came along.”
We don’t pay everyone’s food bill either, and that is more critical than health insurance.
We don’t have everyone covered for their clothing, housing, furnishings, education, or entertainment either.
By your logic, if we don’t have socialism, we will just have to get socialism.
Of course, we will need a oppressive government to enact that, because you will need to constantly take the earnings of those who create wealth to pay for all that - you can’t steal enough up front to foot such bills. Without the incentive of benefiting from the fruits of their efforts, people will just have to be compelled to meet production requirements. Socialist paradise.
It fails to raise the common good every time it is tried. But it does empower and enrich the Party elite. They can get away with murder. And then they can toss away the the no longer useful fools who enabled the concentration of power into the State, for them to hijack.
No medical care is a highly government controlled segment. Big time government controlled.
If medical care was free like food, that would not be an issue, but the government is big-time involved in medicine. Big time.
Yet we let it become a highly manipulated market. That is why Obamacare took roots - because we let it run out of control.
Government is highly involved in medicine. Big time. It is not an issue to me, that they are now involved in it, to eliminate some of the worst abuses.
Granted Obamacare is not the answer, but a free-for all which leaves Americans to be exploited is what we had, and that is even worse.
You mentioned clothing, housing, furnishings, education and entertainment.
None of those are the same. The only one which is similar is education, because of the regulations involved. Clothing, housing, furnishings and entertainment are all free.
Education is another area we need to reign in prices. But that is another subject. :D