What Is Libertarianism?
As far as I can tell it's Tea Party superstar Ben Carson explaining last week that Obamacare is worse then 9/11 since it "shift[s] power from the people to the government."*
How is it possible to perceive the pre-Obamacare status quo as even remotely a situation in which the power resided with "the people" as opposed to massive unaccountable private insurance companies who could deny coverage to anyone they wanted? A system in which huge numbers of families' lives were ruined because of inability to pay for treatment?
* One of his big talking points is that Obamacare is the worst thing to happen to the US since slavery. I'll let you just sit with that one.
How is it possible to perceive the pre-Obamacare status quo as even remotely a situation in which the power resided with "the people" as opposed to massive unaccountable private insurance companies who could deny coverage to anyone they wanted? A system in which huge numbers of families' lives were ruined because of inability to pay for treatment?
* One of his big talking points is that Obamacare is the worst thing to happen to the US since slavery. I'll let you just sit with that one.
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