If it had been framed as a Tax break while winding its way through congress, our congress-critters would have heard the word "TAX" and the bill would have died right there.

That's what I mean, they would have salivated at the thought of it, as would their base.

I just don't get it

And as a bonus, it would have "imposed" a tax on the poor who didn't have insurance! Win-win for them (in their pea brains anyway).

and it wouldn't have passed in the first place.


remember that the constitutional objections and the mandate outrage really didn't start until AFTER passage when they went looking for a basis to challenge it in the courts. before that the big objections were that it was a big government program, with death panels, and would cost too much.

The disenfranchised, the people they don't care about, I can't see why the right wing wouldn't have happily embraced that position.

Seems like the Dems missed a huge opportunity to spin this better.

I think eventually everyone will see it exactly that way and be satisfied, but a big PR opportunity blown imho.