So why do you Republicans like paying other people's medical bills so much?

Hahaha! Because Republicans are completely insane, that's why. "Obamacare" is little different from "Romneycare", which he made law while governor of Massachusetts, and was originally a proposal by the (conservative) Heritage Foundation!

Yet today Republicans are fighting it tooth and nail, because a black man in in the White House?

Insanity. Republicans are racist, religious fanatic NUTS. They have driven this country into a ditch with 40 years of tax-cutting, borrowing and spending on non-stop warmongering, and they take the attitude "we'll be damned if we let anyone pull America out of this ditch!"

America is the laughing stock of the world - mostly because of the Republicans, but Democrats are almost as bad - they are both totally corrupt and in the pockets of the billionaire elite that is reducing the rest of us to poverty and servitude.

EDIT: Incidentally, I don't exactly support the ACA/Obamacare/Romneycare - maybe it's a step in the right direction, but it was written by the health insurance, Big Pharma and Big Hospital lobbies and passed off through the Heritage Foundation to the GOP... it is seriously flawed from the standpoint of the health and well-being of America and its citizens. The US spends 18% of its GDP on healthcare, and we are less healthy and die younger than people in EVERY other "advanced" country, all of which manage to insure ALL of their citizens while spending only ~9% of their GDP - HALF of what we do. And the ACA still won't cover every American - it will leave millions still without insurance - pure insanity. Richest country in the world, broken, homeless people dying in the streets all over the place. Embarrassing. Shameful. Hey, I know - let's go bomb another poor country into the dirt! Yeah, that's it!

@ Larry G - oh, don't kid yourself - the IRS works! Just not the way we want it to - they terrorize and target the hard-working middle class, professionals and small business owners while letting criminal billionaire banksters go scot free. Why? Because the billionaires OWN the government, including the IRS.

After this is all said and done, various actuaries have determined that there STILL be between 20 and 30 million people without insurance. What makes Obamacare so attractive to the uninformed is that it is so SUBSIDIZED by the taxpayers. Obamacare is twice as expensive (to the taxpayer) as advertised. The only thing "forcing" people to have health care insurance is a fine, which, at least for younger people, works out to be far less than what they would have to pay as a premium. The uninsured (for whatever reason) will STILL be walking into ERs for treatment, will STILL not be refused and will STILL pass that cost on to taxpayers. This now, on top of the costs of Obamacare.

You are the one that needs to "wake up".

You must endorse what I am about to say before you read it.

I strongly support Obamacare. Most of the people paying for this will be people in their 20s. They have had a free ride for too long and must give back.

Hospitals will start signing the ill and inmates up for free premiums, Will hospitals require unnecessary procedures just because they will now be paid for by these rich twenty year olds? Surely not.

Maybe it would be best that the Republicans back off and see what happens when people my age are expected to foot the bill for this mess. Some believe Obamacare is designed to fail. The huge increase in premiums and loss of quality service will force the government to step in and take control. That assumes there is thought in this.

Lies are not something exclusively reserved by either party.

We need real health care reform and neither party is really pushing that.

people do have problems since the average lib on the street don't know the difference between obama care and affordable health care .. That being said . I am 63 years old and have never had a problem with health care yet and now you have this wonderful government involvement in health care that is just another way to collect more money from the American people that they don't have and it cannot work. First of all think about it . Name one government run project that works . Uh national parks uh no, post office uh no , Irs uh no , economy uh no , world diplomacy uh no, military uh marginal, friend face it the only thing they are good at is making themselves rich and don't believe this healthcare system is for we the people .

No, now instead of paying for their ER bills we get to pay their premiums instead. And with the deductibles so high under Obamacare nobody will be able to afford them and we will be stuck paying their ER bill anyway.