You do realize that Obamacare is not socialized heaathcare, right?
If so, what you meant to say is that “Obamacare is a good example of one group of companies using the coercive arm of the state to force others to buy a good that they may not want.”
While true of all states, the irony of democracy (majority rule) is that more often than not, the democracy ends up being a minority rule. A small oligarchy of business interests control and coerce the people (but only when a state exists to control). From another view, in American democracy, a few privileged men we call politicians call the shots. The majority only rules on who gets to call the shots (and even here this is not always true - Gore vs Bush), after that, we still get minority rule.
I did not call it socialized healthcare. The goal of the program is to provide free healthcare for one group at the expense of a second group. Government is using the power of cohersion to force people into the insurance pool. The difference being a private insurance pool vs. a public insuance pool. The insurance corporation becomes an extension of government and we have fascism instead of socialism.
I don’t understand why these people post these more than common objections to free markets, we offer up no shortage of answers, and never do we get a reply. If these weren’t great “likely to get googled” questions, I would say this is a ploy to waste our time with easy mental masturbation.
“…if government weren’t coercive, it would be a pointless institution. If coercion weren’t needed to “administer the will of the people,” then people would administer their will voluntarily. That they don’t/wouldn’t means coercion is necessary and is used. Even if it has some democratic component, the point is to make ‘collective’ choices that override individual choices.”