I don't understand the controversy.

[Kremia]

I don't keep up on politics at all, so forgive my ignorance...

My school newspaper did a blurb on the Healthcare thing, so I tried to read it... all I can gather is that everyone is now being forced to have healthcare. Is that a bad thing? Why is there so much debate about the subject? What part of this bill causes argument?

And I'd rather not you give me a hyperlink. A simple explanation would help me a lot. sweatdrop

[Isaac488]

Kremia

I don't keep up on politics at all, so forgive my ignorance...

My school newspaper did a blurb on the Healthcare thing, so I tried to read it... all I can gather is that everyone is now being forced to have healthcare. Is that a bad thing? Why is there so much debate about the subject? What part of this bill causes argument?

And I'd rather not you give me a hyperlink. A simple explanation would help me a lot. sweatdrop

Hope that explains why people are pissy.

[Kremia]

...But isn't healthcare a good thing? Why would people not want it? Not trying to argue, I just don't understand the opposing view.

[Kaori242]

Against healthcare: We don't want to pay for other people's stupid choices in their lives.

For healthcare: We want people to have affordable healthcare so they'll stop dying everywhere.

I know you said you didn't want a hyperlink, but I think this short video sums it up very nicely in a non-partisan way. It's actually pretty informative and summarizes everything pretty well.