Great moments in hypocrisy:
Mitt Romney's prescription for 'Obamacare': Repeal it - James Hohmann - POLITICO.com
Mitt Romney wants to get rid of his own health care plan.

Great moments in hypocrisy:
Mitt Romney's prescription for 'Obamacare': Repeal it - James Hohmann - POLITICO.com
Mitt Romney wants to get rid of his own health care plan.
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
Why do people hate Obamacare? I don't see how it hurts anybody.

Because it's a shitty system that is unconstitutional and immoral.
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane
I'm not convinced it's unconstitutional, and less convinced still that it's immoral, but shitty system seems like a pretty apt two-word description for it.
To be honest I find the term "Obamacare" misleading and stupid as it is not by any stretch Obama's bill alone, nor does it provide care in any sense of the word.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.--Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a simple argument for it being unconstitutional. The law mandates the purchase of health insurance from private sources. The law is based on the commerce clause which allows the government to regulate commerce. No current interpretation of commerce regulation allows the government to force a person to engage in commerce; only to regulate the commerce one does engage in.I'm not convinced it's unconstitutional
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane

I agree completely. The people in the US deserve a health system that is government-funded, single-payer and comprehensive, not one designed to serve, not patients, but greed-obsessed insurance companies, medical corporations, drug companies, and health professionals who push pills and procedures to the detriment of patients.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd - Voltaire

Highly immoral. What gives the government the right to force me to do business with some scumbag?
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane

I suppose it could be interpreted in that way. After all, it is just a bailout for the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
The problem I see with repealing it is the fact that Democrats will not work towards a single payer or even a public option. It will take a landslide LIBERAL victory in 2012 to make that happen.
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
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