since "obamacare" is so widely disliked...?

You would think so.

Binky is more right than wrong, but he is leaving out the fact that if a patient does not pay, taxpayers pick up the tab if the hospital is a "community" hospital. Private hospitals are not legally required to treat anyone who comes in the door (but most do).

Obama offered to bribe Louisiana and Nebraska to get them to sign off on Obamacare. He should have been impeached for that. Who the hell does he think he is?

Study some history.

"Obamacare" has no more chance of being repealed than do Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security...

The odd thing about the vitriol from the Right on this issue is that requiring ALL Americans to take fiscal responsibility for their own health insurance is a CONSERVATIVE ideal, not a liberal one!

Without the health care coverage mandate, anyone who goes to an ER without insurance gets treated (the hospital is hardly going to leave them outside to die) and the hospital has to "absorb that expense"...where did you THINK they got the money to offset that loss? Out of the pockets of patients who DO have coverage, by increasing the price for everyone else...

If you're going to pretend to be a patriot, you should learn how your own political system works.

Obamacare is a political compromise. 43% support it.

But keep reading beyond the headlines:

35% of people oppose it for being too liberal. 16% oppose it because it isn't liberal enough.

That is a classic political compromise.

You've been schooled.

More people support PPACA than are against it.