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Wait, how exactly is the Affordable Health Care Act an "entitlement?"

I do realize that anytime a Republican thinks that anyone with less money than them are getting some kind of assistance from the government it is automatically an 'entitlement' (i.e. "look at that lazy <non-caucasian> freeloader trying to steal my money") but again, how does this apply to the AHCA?

Under Obamacare, the 'freeloaders' that exist now - those people without any form of health insurance who use the hospital ER as their family physician while we the insured foot the bill - would be required to pay into the system via the personal mandate (you know, that thing the Tea Baggers were all out-of-their-minds about in those town hall meetings but has since been declared Constitutional by the Supreme Court)

So without Obamacare the freeloaders can clog up our nation's emergency rooms without paying a dime, but with the Obamacare mandate they would need to pay their fair share for basic health insurance. So, once again, how is Obamacare an 'entitlement'?