[Jane Long]

It's a central part of the law (expanding Medicaid) - accounting for roughly half of all the uninsured people expected to gain coverage.

The "uninsured" could eventually become the elderly, handicapped and "others" who cannot work or afford to pay the mandate/tax/penalty/fine....right?

[NoLibZone]

Thats what occurred in '89. When the elderly realized that they had to pay for the excellent expanded coverage, they revolted.

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. Leftists in Congress passed a change to Medicare that for most seniors was going to add little or no benefit but increase the cost of Medicare for everyone. When seniors realized what was really in the law they rose up and demanded the law be repealed.

At one point a group of irate seasoned citizens chased Dan Rostenkowski, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, to his car and surrounded it and rocked it until the police had to come rescue him. Not long after that Congress repealed the crummy law.

The protest was lead by Democrat Jan Rep. Jan Schakowsky, the houses most progressive member.