# $400 million bribe if the GOP repeals the Affordable Care Act? It can't be true, right... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 22, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/400-million-bribe-if-the-gop-repeals-the-affordable-care-act-it-cant-be-true-right/796934 "2017-09-22T03:14:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/400-million-bribe-if-the-gop-repeals-the-affordable-care-act-it-cant-be-true-right/796934/69 "2017-09-23T04:04:55Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > I would like to hear more from those who don’t support ACA. From what I know, it’s a cut and dried actuarial equation. No healthcare plan proposed by the republican party has an actuarial chance of preventing someone’s death better than the ACA, so there is an objective answer here. > > The pre ACA world, the premiums were lower but the actual risk of having an uncovered medical event crop up was higher. This is objectively verifiable and true in the same way that in a world where all cars are replaced with motorcycles, your risk of death is higher. Even though, it is true, you are spending less on your vehicle. > > Someone who disagrees is just as wrong as someone who disagrees with x+2 = 4, x=2. If you disagree about the value of x…ok, you’re wrong. Maybe the word idiot is a bit far, but if you are told the value of x is 2, shown how to do algebra, and then claim that Rush Limbaugh told you it was 3…that’s where I am coming from. That’s why I was using that word. I’m sorry for doing so, I was trying to say that millions of Florida rednecks or whoever else is a hardcore republican/racist/trump voter are all idiots, I wasn’t trying to address the claim at any specific poster. I don’t support the ACA. The reason is that I believe there is value in establishing the norm that, whenever possible, people pay their own costs, as opposed to demanding that all of us share in a risk pool. Now, this is obviously a non-falsifiable assertion on my part, since such value is not quantifiable. But the whole point of non-falsifiablity is that . . . wait for it . . . you cannot falsify it. It’s simply an assertion, a postulate just as its opposite number is. You mention “death,” as a sort of a trump card (no pun intended). But death is preferable to many worse outcomes. I’d rather die, myself, than experience a whole host of other fates. How can you PROVE this is a poor choice on my part? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/400-million-bribe-if-the-gop-repeals-the-affordable-care-act-it-cant-be-true-right/796934)._