So why do the Rethugs/Teabaggers hate Obamacare so much?

[Auntie Bush]

Other than as Michele says it will kill babies (lol) and I can see why the pharmaceutical Co's
don't like it ...buy why the absolute hatred from the whole party? All they do is try to repeal it without giving good reasons why it's so harmful. I just don't get it! Even some Dems have fallen for their propaganda.

[elleng]

1. Same reason they hate President Obama.

[Auntie Bush]

5. I think it's much more than that...although that has a lot to do with it.

But they are more adamant about repealing the ACA than ANYTHING ELSE that's been passed. Why don't those poor people in the heartland like it? I'm sure most of them don't have health insurance and the Gov. will help them afford it. It still remains a mystery. I know they vote against their own self interest...but anti HI is a little extreme!

[elleng]

17. They're uninformed and subject to repug propaganda machine,

which has been pervasive and effective for many years/generations. Media NOT doing its business is a major factor.

Adding to this its complex, and complexity of anything feeds into repug negativity.

[DirkGently]

2. They believe it is "socialism" and costing us a flardzillion dollars.

I know this because one of them told me. I did not take the time to explain it is a pro-insurance industry measure first conceived and implemented by various Republicans.

[tularetom]

3. If it was Bonercare they would love it

They just hate Obama.

Even if it helps them they have to say they hate it because Obama advocated it.

[6000eliot]

4. Because he's a brown man.

No other reason on Earth.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Frank Lutz found that in his focus groups,racial remarks

have a greater resonator effect. All it is,is just Racial Hatred and it sells.

[Auntie Bush]

11. That seems to be the consensus around here...but I find that hard to believe.

[handmade34]

7. seriously...

most people that hate it don't even know what it is or how it works... these people have been exploited and lied to by congress people and others.

The ones that know and still hate...??? fear, 'a black man is making it happen', power, greed, etc...

[Thinkingabout]

8. Simply put most of their anti is just to prevent Obama from getting credit for anything.

They don't have to put forth a reason or a plan just as Congressional GOP members are blocking conference on the budget. GOP does not have any plans to govern and they just say no. I think in a few years when ACA is fully implemented and citizens begin to realize the benefits maybe Obama can get the proper credit.

[Andy823]

9. Because they have been told to hate it

They listen to the likes of Rush, Beck, all the fox news team, and many other right wing talking "idiots" that push the BS because they are being paid to do so!

These people are so damned gullible they believe all the BS they hear from the media, which is owned by the same corporation that will be losing out as things change thanks to Obama care. Remember the old saying "there is a sucker born every minute", and from what I see the republicans have found everyone of them!

[wandy]

10. Why rank and file republicans reject it is a compleat mystery, Why their....

elected officials and their talking heads don't like it is straight forward.
1) It reduces profit. Preexisting conditions are not profitable. Not being able to 'pull coverage' in case of severe illness also damages the bottom line.
2) This is the big one. It may become popular. It may set the stage for a national health care plan.

That would really impact the bottom line!

Think about it. What do insurance companies actually DO to make that profit.

[tblue]

12. You mean the real people or the pols?

Cuz their reasons are not the same.

[rurallib]

13. Bill Kristol said it many years ago

and I don't have the exact quote - but paraphrasing he said that is the Democrats can ever get anything close to universal health care apssed and it works at all, Republicans will never get elected. I t was during the Clinton attempt at HC and Kristol was Gingrich's top aide.

[Auntie Bush]

16. That sounds like the most likely reason I've heard.

Although...FDR passed SS and that didn't stop ReThugs from being elected.

[rurallib]

19. Possibly Kristol was overstating things a bit

Republicans do sometimes stretch things a little.
Until any truth is nowhere to be found

[Dawson Leery]

27. +1

[Fumesucker]

14. Playing the refs, the Republicans do it as instinctively as breathing

Democrats try to be rational and reasonable to a greater or lesser extent, being reasonable never enters Republican minds in the first place.

The liberals went ahead and did what you want? Suckers, you hate the idea.

Romneycare became Obamacare, straight from the Heritage Foundation and a quintessentially Republican idea that forces Americans into the private market for insurance and they loathe the implementation simply because it was the other side that did it.

Republicans can turn on a dime and give you nine cents change, they can go from "criticizing the President in wartime is treason" to "The President is a traitor" in the same wartime without taking a breath in between.

[Herlong]

15. Misdirection, lies and disinformation

Tell the people the truth and we will all work together to solve the problems. Republahcans don't want that.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. They want people to be sick all the time so their big healthcare insurance donors make big profits

they want you to be as sick as possible without taking their money

[Auntie Bush]

21. Hmmm, that's a new one and a good reasonable assumption.

[Mr.Bill]

20. They are terrified it will work.

[reformist2]

22. It brings in the campaign bucks.

[Auntie Bush]

24. Then that would mean they value campaign bucks more

than the lives of thousands or millions of Americana. That sounds about right!

[reformist2]

26. Their Grand Old Party is basically just a three-ring circus now. Half the leaders don't even believe

the crap they spew - but it sells tickets, and they can't pass up a good thing. In a way, they're living in a hell of their own creation.

[davidn3600]

23. Individual mandate

Ideologically, many don't believe the government should have that kind of authority.

They don't see it as the government helping you, they view it as the government twisting your arm into compliance.

[Igel]

28. Expand on that.

They think that government should provide for the general welfare, not provide the general welfare. Or

They think that a large government is one in which influence peddling, bribery, and lobbying is likely to be a problem. If a small government is corrupt, piffle. It's small and inoffensive, and there's not much of a motivation to corrupt it.

They think that government should be intrusive on their terms, not on other people's terms. (There's a pretty good consensus that government should be intrusive. They insist on dictating to people bedrooms and prescribing or proscribing what happens there, others insist on dictating to people as regards their more public actions and prescribing/proscribing what happens there--and this extends to thoughts and motivations, and that's where I think it's a bit too Orwellian. But, in general, everybody wants to dictate to others. Meh. Primates.)

[malaise]

25. The real reason they hate Obama is that they spent

nearly 400 years creating their caricature of the black male and Obama shattered it by winning the presidency. Any meaningful legacy for Obama means that all their bullshit has been a lie for centuries.

That's why they want back 'their' country.