The President's public lying has no bounds when it comes to Obamacare as he proved when he spoke with the Canadian PM bragging that the US has a right to health care. Not true. There is no universal right to healthcare in the US. As consumers face their fears and frustrations in this election season, raising the stakes, as if hating or repealing Obamacare will "take away" a right to health care should not be one of them--You can't lose what you don't have.
Gloating over the Supreme Court's perversion of Obamacare and removing its alleged respect for States rights by justifying premium assistance payments to anyone registering for an Obamacare plan, (King v. Burwell) was designed to preserve OBAMACARE, it expanded the RIGHT TO GET MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF YOU PURCHASE AN OBAMACARE PLAN, nothing else. Obamacare fans carry fantasy to an extreme in asserting a "right" to healthcare.
Can anyone see a physician regardless of ability to pay in the US? No. Can anyone overcome the barriers of income in order to access public funding for health care? No. Simply refer to the Supreme Court's 2012 Medicaid decision creating an option rather than an obligation on states to create expanded Medicaid, or live in a state without expanded Medicaid and you'll realize that as the facts show millions of Americans do NOT have access to or the right to health care because they can't afford it.
Whether you support universal coverage or not doesn't change the facts--the US has no right to healthcare regardless of income, regardless of disease, regardless of condition. Obamacare narrowly created the universal citizen OBLIGATION to PURCHASE health INSURANCE, a FINANCIAL product produced in a capitalistic society where insurance is big business.
The imposition of a new tax on consumers, a penalty for NOT purchasing a private sector product of health insurance includes the accompanying mandate that insurance companies SELL those policies to individuals. For those who cannot afford such private sector products, the government has piecemeal system where SOME people who cannot afford the private sector health insurance product receive a product paid for by the government, or partially paid for by the government, or are EXEMPTED FROM PURCHASE of the health insurance product.
There is no assurance that every citizen has access to a health insurance policy regardless of income. There is no assurance that every citizen has access to care. Individuals can be turned away by physicians for any variety of reasons including that they don't have an insurance plan that the physicians want to accept to help pay for the services they receive.
The closest the law comes to addressing a "right" to health care is regarding emergency rooms, and even there, once a crisis is handled, patients can be shipped out once STABILIZED AND-OR charged exorbitant rates.
As the fear-mongering continues, there should at least be no fear when it comes to Obamacare and losing a so-called "right" to health care in the US. There is no such right and Obamacare did nothing to change that.
