Bob Schroeck Wrote:... The big problem they now face is that the ACA was a copy of a conservative Republican heathcare program -- Romney's from Massachussetts, if I recall correctly. ...Sort of, if Wikipedia is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_P ... ve_history
"In 2006, an insurance expansion bill was enacted at the state level in Massachusetts. The bill contained both an individual mandate and an insurance exchange. Republican Governor Mitt Romney vetoed the mandate, but after Democrats overrode his veto, he signed it into law. ... By 2008 many Democrats were considering this approach as the basis for healthcare reform. Experts said that the legislation that eventually emerged from Congress in 2009 and 2010 bore similarities to the 2007 bill and that it was deliberately patterned after Romney's state healthcare plan."
While Romney's name is attached to the program, he didn't like it at first.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012