Obamacare Is Nothing But Nationalization Of Health Care

The Affordable Care Act Is

Full Of Unconstitutional Mandates

I am still surprised that the many other, interdependent mandates of the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (ACA) were not more vigorously constitutionally challenged. Thus, it has also escaped my attention how pernicious and unamerican this act is.

Here are the major mandates of the ACA, I am aware of:

1.       The individual mandate to buy health insurance

2.       The employer mandate to provide health insurance

3.       The guaranteed issue mandate aimed at health insurance companies

4.       The community rating mandate also aimed at health insurance companies

For sake of brevity, I will not comment on each of these mandates.

Each one of them is a massive intervention in individual liberty, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. None of these massive interventions is necessary. Only Big Government in collusion with corporatism are able to come up with such a horrific law.

Successive Nationalization Of Health Care In the US

Even today, major parts of US healthcare are already nationalized. Here is a quick rundown:

·         Health care for older Americans (Medicare)

·         Health care for the poor (Medicaid)

·         Health care for veterans

·         Health care for children in need (CHIPS and SCHIP)

Thus, a huge number of Americans have been already covered by government run health care before Obamacare was passed.

There is no doubt in my mind that this law would lead to basically a further nationalization of health care in the US. Private insurance companies would be not much more than an extended federal bureaucracy. Every time things would not develop as envisaged on Capitol Hill more intervention would be imposed (vicious spiral of intervention according to Ludwig von Mises). The penalty tax will surely be raised as soon as too many Americans do not comply and so on.

The New Deal Reloaded

Only seventy years after the New Deal, Democrats forced this continuation of 20^th century all powerful government on its citizens. Who thought that Fascism or Socialism are in the dustbin of history, should quickly wake up. The Statue of Liberty is inconsolably weeping.