Well, the people at firedoglake.com are a much smarter crowd than those at DU. They pretty much hate it to a man (or woman) I only found about 1-2 comments that had any favorable comments about it. They are really really pissed about the individual mandate. They truly despise the democrats who joined hands with the insurance companies and dropped the public option.
Are they really libertarians?
That’s pretty much what I saw at DU too. Lots of comments against the mandate. And some comments against dropping the public option.
I saw one post over there that claimed that the penalty was so low that the mandate wouldn’t matter. That the penatly was 0.5% of income. So someone earning $20,000 would pay $100 in extra taxes for not having insurance.
I thought the penalty was 2.5%, but I’m not sure where I got that.
Maybe you should apprise them of the Anthem Blue Cross CEO visit to the WH followed by the annnouncement to CA small businesses THEIR rates were going up 39%. Voila! Instant support from the business community.