Are you seriously trying to label the making available of healthcare, to those who could not afford it before, as fascism?
Maybe the author of the opinion piece is right after all. And no, an opinion piece is not fake news. It's an opinion piece.
News is when the media reveal that e.g. Trump/Obama/whoever is in power at the time is lying to the people he/she represents. Investigative journalism is what makes better checks and balances compared to partisan politicians.
Cheers,
Bart
First all, there are several people who now can't afford Healthcare because of the increase in regs, which increased the cost and decreased options. Many in the USA, especially the young, are choosing to pay the fine instead of buying coverage. This is only increasing the cost even more. Have you been paying attention to how fast the rates are rising?
On top of this, the fine is a joke. If someone does not want to pay it, there is really no way to force them to do so. Unless the Dems wanted to start jailing people over it, which would be a PR nightmare.
On top of this, the vast majority of those who are now covered by the ACA had coverage previously, so in effect, the bill did very little to actually help those it was targeted towards, and discourages those whom it needs to succeed, the young, from joining by artficially inflating the price of insurance for young people.
Although it was well intentioned, and it was, it is a victim almost all of these policies are of, that being the effects of over regulation. The effects of which are always to decrease options and raise prices.
Edit: I kind of went a little off topic here. My main point was that this opinion piece is filled with the same flawed logic many of these pieces most are filled with and acts as nothing more then to preaching to the converted. Unfortunately many of those converted give up all sense of logic and just blinding agree.