Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but actually Romneycare is not more or less generous. MA has to comply with PPACA requirements so now Romneycare and Obamacare are the same thing. Next before PPACA passes Romneycare did not have many of the provisons that is now has thanks to PPACA . The only that that would make Obamacare better is single payer.
This is exactly what the GOP was afraid of. Remember Mitch McConnell saying that if Obama passed health care, the Democrats would be so popular the GOP would never win again?
The whole hullaballoo from the right, the anti-ads, the anti-lawsuits, the anti-bills passed by the House served only one purpose, to delay implementation, if not derail it. But beyond that they aimed to put a typical GOP āstinkā on something good to make most people feel unenthused about it.
Implementation has been Obamacareās biggest victory.
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Which is going to be one of the biggest puzzlers for decades to comeā¦
Once it became law, they knew that inevitably it was going to be implemented that people would like it. Why continue to fight against that, especially inflaming the base against it? You know eventually there is going to be a backlash, and that you will be cut out of that discussion of decades.
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Iām just waiting for the āwe were really for it all along, see I supported it back in 1804 when the Heritage Foundation first proposed it! Obama stole our ideas and it should be called RepubliCare!ā gambitā¦
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I love that āNā in the White House.
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I will truly never understand their long term thinking. Sure, being vehemently against Obamacare was very helpful to them in 2010, but it hurt them badly in 2012, will most likely be a non-issue in 2014, and could quite possibly destroy them in 2016.
The only thing I can pinpoint that may have a lot to do with their strategy is that they still donāt understand the digital age. They donāt comprehend that everything they do and say can be memorialized on a jump drive the size of a childās thumb. Theyāre still operating in a world without sound bytes.
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Which means that 95% of them like their plans, but 20% just canāt bring themselves to admit it.
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Campaigning against Obamacare in 2012 was a strategic mistake. Doing it with Romney as the nominee was monumentally stupid. It exposed the hypocrisy on this issue to even their own base. And was a big part of the reason why Romney had such a hard time nailing the base support down. The 2012 campaign in particular is going to make the eventual pivot, 10-20 years down the road, that it was always their idea, even more difficult to pull off.
It is rather interesting to watch, considering that just 10 years ago, Rove was talking about a permanent republican majority, and it wasnāt considered entirely fantastic. Now they are staring into the abyss of irrelevance.
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Would they rather that Obamaās name was removed, Hell yes!
Because that makes an emotional difference and your emotions effect your health.
IOW, hating is not healthy. And that is the conservative conundrum. They hate which causes them poor health, which leads them to BHO care, which infuriates them to the point of illness and then back to needing Obamacare.
There only hope may be Buddhism and they hate that too.
I know you canāt infer motives, but I havenāt seen 90% public support for something in the U.S. since 2002, maybe Dec 2001 (Enron).
Isnāt it possible that this is heard as a heuristic question, and some people, despite resentfully signing up, will claim dissatisfaction because āthey liked their old plan?ā
This year, I think thereāll still be some angst. The republicans are on a collision course with the oncoming train in 2016 though.
Thatās been the great gift of the Obama Administrationās patient approach. He could have achieved more, sure, but he achieved a lot and teed the ball up for 2016 so very nicely.