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CaptainShuddup says

I suspect 90% of those that have been Okeydoking Obamacare the most, running around calling it a Healthcare SYSTEM, will be the most vocal critics when that mandate kicks in.

I'd have no problem with the individual mandate if we got single payer, a public option, and a divorce of health insurance from employment in exchange. Otherwise it's a giveaway to already too-powerful insurance companies and it's going to backfire.

Of course, I'd have sponsored a real health care reform bill like the one I described above if I were in the Senate.

CaptainShuddup says

Do these people really think they will fare better under Obamacare.

Most people see through it and know they won't fare better, but partisans believe whatever their party tells them. For example, Homeboy refuses to acknowledge that insurers are buying hospitals, which enables them to sidestep the MLR rules by shifting profit from the insurance side to the hospital side within the same parent company. Most people, on both sides, just want to believe.

Dan8267 says

Of course, I'd have sponsored a real health care reform bill like the one I described above if I were in the Senate.

...which is why you aren't. Legislation isn't drafted by public spirited engineers. It is drafted by self-interested politicians and lobbyists whose patronage networks demand payback and offer opportunities, for example Billy Tauzin and Max Baucus. When you look at how a legislative body actually works, and the product that emerges when the inputs have been digested all the way through the system, it becomes a powerful argument for limited government.