Take a trip back in time to the White House signing ceremony for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010. read more
So the question isn't really whether government-imposed health care is socialist. The question is whether a universal social need, like health care, can be met entirely from profit-seeking capital. In this case the answer is demonstrably no. read more
"Obamacare cannot be considered socialist in any way," according to Greg Pason, the national secretary for Socialist Party USA."The ACA program relies on private health insurance companies to manage health services," Pason said. read more
In politics there are some problems that become so stigmatized that we lose sight of the core of the issue. For Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA), the bitterly contested issue of the so-called individual mandate that every individual carry some form of health insurance is the hot topic at hand. read more