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Obamacare Wars

It’s impossible to read an American newspaper, or switch on the television without a story that says the Affordable Care Act will be devastating to the American way of life, and the country’s economy. Everybody is arguing about it.

A recent report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office claimed that Obamacare would destroy over two million jobs over the next decade. Republicans say that people would choose not to work, or work less, in order to maximise their benefits offered by the government. It sounds just like the dependency culture in the U.K.

The Democrats counter by claiming that Obamacare will increase demand for goods and services, and so boost employment. Of course, being by far the largest sector of the tax-paying public, the hard working middle classes would have to pay to supply that demand. As a result their standard of healthcare will decrease, or they’ll have to pay more.

Will there be dramatic benefits as the Democrats claims? Look out of the window, alongside the Golden Geese, the pigs are flying, and better-off US citizens will have to shoot for bacon.

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