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What does term "affordable" mean as applied to housing and healthcare?

I keep hearing liberals talk about "affordable" healthcare and "affordable" housing. How do make something so complicated "affordable to all in a free society?

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1. they use the word affordable instead of government subsidized.just another way to get an idea across without really providing the details or plan.typical liberal BS.
2. Affordable means that someone making the average American wage can 'afford' to buy.
3. It means communism. They don't want you to make any more than anyone else. They want you to work harder to pay for those who can't pay for it themselves so you earn less ... take care of them, and get nothing you didn't already have in return. In fact they think you should have less.
4. To be able to bear the cost of. Conservatives and many other people tend to use that system in their corporations to provide benefits to employees.
5. that's why the sub prime mortgages failed.
6. affordable housing used to mean cost of home equal to 2 years salary.Now it means how much can you pay vs how many square feet do you need.Affordable healthcare used to mean your family doctor coming by with a bag and an education to mend you up,Now it is affordable if the 4 diagnostic test are covered by insurance,because we are scared to death we can go broke to treat a common ailment without insurance..And now as then there will be some who classify affordable anything as something someone else pays for. So affordable means what can I comfortably manage with the least disruption to my financial norm.
7. "Affordable" is a subjective term that allows politicians to centrally plan these parts of our lives. Absent government intervention, it would mean something different to every individual. However, absent government intervention healthcare, housing and other regulated things would certainly cost less.
8. Habitat for Humanity and Hillary-care, a.k.a., Socialized medicine.