One of the first things that comes to mind is that I have, until recently, never heard anyone who uses the phrase "Obamacare" indicate that they have any idea what the Affordable Health Care Act actually does, or is. If you ask these folks what they are talking about you usually get a blank stare. I say recently because the moniker "Obamacare" has made its way past the haters, yahoos, slack jawed yokels and political opportunists to the marginally better attuned general public.
Most of these folks used to flap their lips about the deficit, a topic laden with technicalities very remote from their cognitive abilities. Before that they hated the stimulus, about which they understood even less than the deficit. Before that it was abortion. And gun control. And immigration reform. And before that it was just about anything that could possibly move the country forward to the ranks of real first class societies. Always the same folks, from the same parts of the country.
So what is actually wrong about the Affordable Care Act? Is it the likelihood that we could possibly provide better health care to more people than, say Chile or Bulgaria?
Perhaps the problem is that the whiners are just sore losers that do not comprehend that they cannot always get everything they want. Like little brats that get a "no" from their mom and scoot over to whine at dad, who, if he is really stupid, may just say "yes;"
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