Isn't that because Obamacare's biggest fans (in congress in particular) are exempt from having to be subjected to it? Demand that if anyone must participate, ALL must do so!
Socialism doesn’t work that way. Even before it was called socialism, proto-socialists had as a strong belief in the idea that only 1 in 10 people could be “masters”, “the elite”, or other “leaders”, in something of a parody of the European noble classes. The other 9 in 10 were the “masses”, “proles”, “hoi polloi”, or even slaves.
A good example of this can be found in the writings of George Fitzhugh, “Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters”. Not just an apologist for slavery, but so convinced that slavery was a social good, that 9 out of 10 persons should be slaves.
Yet his was a latter day reflection of such philosophers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who believed that mankind should be reduced to widely separated rural villages, kept technologically backwards and denied history by itinerant “Orphic Poets” (masters), who would in effect rule over them and keep them from improving their lives, by lying to them about current events and history, even twisting the Bible to create false parables.
The religious faith and principles of socialism are such that even though most are terribly ignorant of philosophy, history, and socialism itself, they can recreate its major articles of faith, though never directly taught them.
Much of it is a parody of the Bible, by the way, but omitting God and putting “man” in God’s place.