Is It Socialism?

Every time I make the statement that Obamacare is socialized medicine, I get a load from the liberals with comments like, "Oh, I suppose you're opposed to firefighters and cops too. What about the roads you drive on, who do you think built those?"

It's as if they think that since we have government do anything, we must have it do everything. The question they seem to have already addressed (to their own satisfaction, apparently) is whether or not health care is appropriately on the list of jobs that we want government to handle. I don't think is is or should be, but I'm amazed at how many others think it should be. And furthermore, they assume everybody else wants it too (or should, if they weren't a bunch of stupid hicks who act against their own best interests.) Then they'll mock you for calling it socialism. They'll explain that THIS isn't socialism. No, single payer would have been what they wanted, but that was too hard to get, so they settled for Obamacare even though it's not ideal, but it certainly isn't "socialism."

I usually like to ask them at that point if they understand who the "single payer" is. Surprisingly many of them DO know that it's the government, but for some reason fail to equate that with government run health care. They seem to believe that government's role in all this is just just providing some coordination. They aren't really running things. Trust me, if they are writing the checks, they are in control.