I live in Mike Pence's district (I am really disappointed he is using the GOP lies about bailouts to block financial reform, I honestly thought he was above outright lying), and get emails from his campaign. I'm obviously not a republican, I just like keeping tabs.
Today I got an email claiming that health insurance reform bill is bad because it pushes people off the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), which is a plan for working poor adults that is heavily subsidized by the state. They will be moved to medicaid, or subsidized private insurance in 2014.
http://www.theindychannel.com/health/22917090/detail.htmlMarcus Barlow, of the Family and Social Services Administration, said HIP participants will not be dropped overnight.
Participants will continue receiving HIP benefits, but in 2014, they will become Medicaid recipients.
Basically the argument against government funding and involvement in health care (the new health care bill) is that it will end a popular program based on (wait for it) government funding and involvement in health care, namely HIP. HIP is heavily subsidized, I think premiums are only 2-3% of gross income. I tried applying, but was turned down.
So socialism is bad because it destroys popular socialistic programs and replaces them with different socialistic programs.