Why Do Republicans Object to Obamacare?
October 15, 2013
House Republicans have been wanting changes to Obamacare as a condition to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government. Why do Republicans object to Obamacare? They support things even worse–Medicare. And back when Bush the president they expanded Medicare to levels that LBJ could never have imagined. Although Republicans may not believe in the federal government forcing Americans to purchase health insurance for themselves, they do believe in forcing some Americans to pay for the health insurance or health care of other Americans through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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