[Theodore R.]

So true; I regret that our little Republican primary voters can’t understand this important distinction. If so, they would repudiate most of their primary choices in 2012.

[Alberta's Child]

I hate to break this to you . . . but despite all the political posturing in 2010 when this idiocy known as Obamacare was passed, the Republican Party is 100% on board with most of its provisions. I said that at the time and got a lot of ridicule for it here on FreeRepublic, but history is going to prove me right on this.

Different groups with their own political agendas may have their own motives for supporting Obamacare, but the basic purpose of it is to lay the foundation for severing the link between employment and medical insurance -- thereby eliminating an enormous cost item from the expense ledgers of major U.S. employers. The "beauty" of it, from their perspective, is that it will eventually push all Americans into a government-run system where health care would be considered substandard (and maybe even criminal) by our current standards, and yet nobody would be able to do anything about it because "that's just the way the system works."

[woodenickel]

Yes the state will bring you into this world, if they choose and will put an end to you when you become to costly.