The Many Misiniformed about Obamacare

I talked to one of my coworkers yesterday, who shared with me that "Obamacare is great."

His son has a tough part-time job, and he cannot afford health care on his own.

He signed up on Obamacare, my coworker told me.

Then I shared with him about the many people across the country, not just here in California, who are losing their health insurance, or they are seeing their health insurance premiums increase.

He then mentioned one of the most disturbing yet ignorant comments I had every heard.

"You don't have to sign up."

He gave the impression that people do not have to have health care.

But every American has to have health insurance, according to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

He then commented that Obamacare is not for everybody, that socialized medicine is not for everybody.

When it comes to government interventions in health care, there is no choices.

Everyone has to respond to  Obamacare, since the law requires every individual to have their own health insurance.

The great problem in our times, it would appear, is an unenlightened electorate.

Most people know a lot about their own work, their families. They know how to work with people, take down complex information. They recognize economic trends within their own careers.

Such was the case with the coworker I was talking with.

Socialized medicine is not for everybody? Does the man even know what he is talking about? The growing lack of awareness people have about these unprecedented shifts in health care is disturbing, indeed.