It matters not what political party a person supports, or whether or not you like the idea of mandated insurance coverage.
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The simple fact of the matter is this: there's no money to pay for ACA or any other government program!! All this posturing is pointless when most individuals can't afford insurance, no matter how "cheap" it is, and the government really has no money to pay for it either. For those who naively argue that ACA is just like Medicare and Social Security and they magically work- well, you're wrong. They are broke too. I don't know why this is so hard to understand:
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A National Debt Of $14 Trillion? Try $211 Trillion
"If you add up all the promises that have been made for spending obligations, including defense expenditures, and you subtract all the taxes that we expect to collect, the difference is $211 trillion. That's the fiscal gap," he says. "That's our true indebtedness."
"We've got 78 million baby boomers who are poised to collect, in about 15 to 20 years, about $40,000 per person. Multiply 78 million by $40,000 — you're talking about more than $3 trillion a year just to give to a portion of the population," he says. "That's an enormous bill that's overhanging our heads, and Congress isn't focused on it."
"What you have to do is either immediately and permanently raise taxes by about two-thirds, or immediately and permanently cut every dollar of spending by 40 percent forever. The [Congressional Budget Office's] numbers say we have an absolutely enormous problem facing us."
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139027615/a-national-debt-of-14-trillion-try-211-trillion
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Medicare's $100 Trillion Unfunded Liability
"I’m a little late getting to this, but it’s important. The Democrats like to tell us that Obamacare is going to shore up Medicare, and that it’s already doing so. Don’t believe it, it’s a lie. The truth is frightening, but it’s something that needs to get out there.
Looking indefinitely into the future, the unfunded liability is $43 trillion — almost three times the size of today’s economy. Based on more plausible assumptions, such as those reflected in the "alternative" scenario for Medicare produced by the Congressional Budget Office in June 2012, the long-term shortfall is more than $100 trillion. …
When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, Medicare’s chief actuary, Rick Foster, said the cuts envisioned would damage access to care. Harvard health economist Joe Newhouse predicted that seniors may have to seek health care at the same places frequented by Medicaid patients today — at community health centers and the emergency rooms of safety-net hospitals."
http://www.freeinews.com/politics/medicares-100-trillion-unfunded-liability
For those who don't understand this, "unfunded" means these programs don't have any money now and the money they need for the future doesn't exist either. The only way to continue the programs is to continue borrowing- and the USA is right at the point of being completely insolvent. This is before the government begins subsidizing ACA.
