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How is it not a tax? Sorry, but paranoid conspiracy theories are not helping you.In a for profit system there is obvious incentive for insurance companies and hospitals to increase their profits even if that means shutting the bottom 10% of wage earners out of the system. Those are just the facts. A for-profit system is not meant to provide universal coverage, nor affordable coverage. It is meant to maximize profits.If Americans want to continue to pay twice what other countries pay per capita, and still not cover everyone, then the for-profit system is for them. Small countries? Japan pays half of what we do, and they have about 130 million residents, about half of what we do. I would hardly call that small. Every other 1st world nation has found a system that works, and that system is single payer. Then. Make. It. Better. The ACA is healthcare reform.

Conservatives run on a platform of making government not work. Go figure.

Taxation is not punishment. False. They still carry a profit from one quarter to the next. They often sink this money into lavish salaries and buildings. You think?The fact of the matter is that we pay WAY more than ANY OTHER 1st WORLD NATION. Period. In which country has it not worked? Then I would suggest moving out of a country that has 300 million other people.

Do you have any data showing that there has been any significant movement of workers from full time to part time as a result of the ACA?The data I have seen shows just the opposite:"The report's most notable nugget is the change in part-time work. Over the last month the number of workers in part-time jobs for economic reasons--slack demand, cutbacks in hours--has remained stable. Over the last year, however, it has fallen by 681,000. Those part-timers also constitute a smaller share of all workers--5.5% in September compared to 6% a year earlier."
Tuesday's tepid brew of jobs data, delayed more than two weeks by the government shutdown, wasn't worth waiting for. Part time jobs are going down while full time jobs are increasing. I think you are swallowing Republican lies without questioning them.

The mandate for employers does not go into effect until January 2015.White House To Delay Obamacare's Employer Mandate Until 2015; Far-Reaching Implications For The Private Health Insurance MarketThe national trend is that part time jobs are becoming less common while there is a rise in full time jobs.

We support the story that Republicans are a bunch of hypocrits, and that story remains true. Somehow, Obama's possible birth in Kenya somehow meant he couldn't be president even though he was a US citizen by law, and even though he was born in the US. Cruz openly admits that he was not born in the US, and those same conservatives say that he can be president by law.The words "hoisted" and "petard" come to mind.

Ted Cruz was born in Canada, and he is running for president. Conservatives don't seem to have a problem with it. How do you explain this?