Random Questions about the Republican Assault on PPACA:
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1. Would Conservatives be up in arms if PPACA (in more or less its present form) had been signed into law by George W. Bush?
2. PPACA was originally introduced as a "conservative" alternative to President Clinton's health care proposal. Why was there never any action taken on it? Did they really support or was it just a gimmick to them? Where was all the teeth-gnashing about the individual mandate then?
3. How do they support Mitt Romney's PPACA "blueprint" in Massachusetts? Why is mandating that people of a state to purchase health insurance o.k. but requiring everybody in every state to do the same? Have any "freedom fighters" in Massachusetts challenged THAT mandate yet and if not, why?
To me, the Republican Tea Party opposition to PPACA is borne not of sincere and genuine concern about its constitutionality and/or concerns about "freedom" but is more opportunistic Obama-bashing mostly (if not entirely) because he was the one who signed it into law and they fear that it might be successful and lead to more reforms. Of course, they don't have any answers for the American public about what they'd do differently and they certainly don't have anything substantive to replace it with but, of course, that won't stop them from trying to tear PPACA down so that we can go back to what we had before, which, honestly, I don't believe most people want but as long as people don't fully understand what's in the law and how it is helping them right now and how it will help them more in the future, the Republicans are going to continue to ride the wave of misguided/misdirected anger all the way to the ballot box.
