Meghan McCain: Obamacare ‘One of the Worst Things to Happen to America’

Meghan McCain argued in a spirited debate on TakePart Live last night that Obamacare is “debatably one of the worst things to happen to America in the last 25 years.” She argued with co-hosts Jacob Soboroff and Baratunde Thurston over the popularity of the health care law and whether Howard Dean was right to say its writers were “elitist.”

Jacob Soboroff said it’s ridiculous to say wanting to give health care to millions of people who don’t have it is “elitist.” McCain brought up figures saying the law’s very unpopular and both co-hosts sat up when she said Obamacare is “one of the worst things” in recent history.

She said that the ACA shows President Obama is very “disconnected with what the American people really want” in engaging in this kind of redistribution. Thurston shot back that the real redistribution going on is to the richest Americans amassing greater percentages of wealth.

Watch the video below, via Pivot:

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