[SoConPubbie]

Contrary to spin, Romneycare had almost nothing to do with obamacare.

Contrary to YOUR spin, RomneyCare was the pre-cursor to Obamacare and shares two of it's most objectionable features from a limited-government, conservative perspective:

1. You are FORCED to buy it, or pay a fine (Individual Mandate).
2. You are forced to subsidize someone else's Health Care. In effect, they, at the point of a gun, demand you give your money to someone else.

Sorry, the rest of the details are irrelevant, Socialism is Socialism, I don't care how you package it.

[Olog-hai]

I don’t see socialism as part of states’ rights either. Note TEEL’s “states’ rights” false argument.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Wrong. The states (NOT the feds) CAN and DO mandate we purchase insurance. Here in CA where I live and every other state I have ever lived in, the STATES CAN and DO require drivers to obtain auto insurance. If they can do that with auto insurance, they can do that with health insurance. People do NOT have the right to walk into a hospital, receive care and treatment and leave the taxpayers stuck with the bill.