re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

This really happened at the KY State Fair last week…

That goes to what I was saying before the 2012 election - if Romney had won, he’d repeal Obamacare. Just the name. Put his back on it, and declare it a success. After all, it was all modeled on the GOP individual mandate and MassCare proposals. Obama co-opted those and made them central to his health care agenda in the hopes of getting some GOPers to support it; they went with pure venomous opposition rather than any kind of cooperation.

The GOP is fear-mongering on the name alone. They want people to fear this program, because they know that there are portions of it that are already successful - the preexisting conditions provision and the coverage for dependents to age 26.

It doesn’t make the PPACA perfect by any stretch, but it expands coverage to millions of people who lacked the ability to get insurance at a reasonable price.

Kentucky is showing that if you provide PPACA programs (without identifying it as such, the opposition drops away or people don’t even realize that they’re buying into PPACA programs).