The only really good argument against Obamacare I have read...

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...mainly because it acknowledges two things: first, that American healthcare is the most expensive in the world; and second, that "insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative", the point is how to do it. http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/27/kill_the_bills_do_health_reform_right?page=full&comments=true

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[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

The nature of modern medical care -- especially delivered via ER -- is such that there's a high chance you wouldn't be able to afford the bill, at which point you declare bankruptcy and walk away. (And if not you personally, certainly many of 'you' following this strategy.) Thus it becomes our business, following from our initial commitment to provide care to everyone who urgently needs it, even if they don't have proof of ability to pay. (As might happen to someone who was well-insured, but mugged and lacking any proof of this at the time his body was picked up.)

[cerebresque.livejournal.com]

Does this, then, not reflect a fatal flaw in the committment you are attempting to undertake?

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Only for a rather idiosyncratic value of "fatal".