“… obviously this kind of thing isn’t going to work. But it does illustrate how reactionary and unthinking some conservatives have allowed their Obamacare opposition to become — that they’d push their older, sicker fellow travelers toward a (for them) unsubsidized health system with the intention of destroying it, thus leaving those people with … nothing! This is a bit like holding bank customers hostage by strapping dynamite to yourself.”

The right’s day-after freakout: Conservatives fail to grapple with new Obamacare reality