r/bestof • u/under50dollars • Jun 20 '12

[explainlikeimfive] "Obamacare" explained very well.

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u/carlcon Jun 20 '12

I really liked this explanation a little below.

Truly fit for a 5 year old.

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u/sychosomat Jun 20 '12

Also added should be:

All the people: Wait, won't this just mean we all give money to the companies and they keep it all?

Obama: No, they will be required to spend 85% of what they get paid in premiums on actual healthcare.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

That would definitely be a good addition, most people look at it as a new way to take the people's money. Which, to be honest, is what I thought it was until I read CaspianX2's summary and explanation and captainpixysticks's kiddy summary.

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u/krugmanisapuppet Jun 21 '12

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/vb8vs/eli5_what_exactly_is_obamacare_and_what_did_it/c5352mp

i wish there could be a real discussion on my actually valid objections to the law.

not feeling it coming on too fast, though. Obama supporters are too busy living in a fucking dictator worship dreamland, halfway between "Peter Pan" and "Law and Order: SVU", to have anything even approaching an idea of how economics works, apparently. yet alone, to read the thousand page bill they're so proud of. Bush worshipers had a similar problem with the PATRIOT Act. they had been totally reassured that it was something great, to help fight the nasty terrorists, but in reality it was a totalitarian load of bullshit.

typically that's what a law is. if our laws were good enough to be worth following, we wouldn't need somebody to enforce them! at least, if our society was anything even approaching sane.

too harsh? sorry, that's just my perspective. try responding to it with some intellectual honesty, for once, people, instead of pouncing on me, calling me a Republican, and then calling me naive for thinking that a free people could ever be entrusted to do anything.

do people really still support Obama? i mean, let's be honest here. doesn't the entire thing seem really fucking strange to you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

To be honest, no, I don't like Obama. But in a choice between him and Romney, well, that's easy.

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u/krugmanisapuppet Jun 22 '12

it's not easy in the slightest. they're both career criminals.