[PapaNew]

That's because the GOP is stupid and doesn't talk up the VOLUNTARY, NON-COERCIVE FREE MARKET ECONOMY which has created the highest-quality, most cost-effective healthcare in the world as the CLEAR ALTERNATIVE to oppressive, failure-ridden, poverty-producing socialism which started driving healthcare prices up in the 70's.

The GOP and the Right need to go back to school and learn about the free market - America's legacy and reason for its economic might. Nobody talks about the free market. Instead the GOP wants an alternative government healthcare plan providing Obama with ammunition that the Right "has no alternative." That's because many in the GOP want to keep their government jobs instead of wanting to kill the government beast. They're part of the problem. And we let them get away with it. Stupid.

[Little Ray]

Personally, I think that it is because, in the end, the growth of government empowers the GOP just as much as it does the Democrats.