I’ve Got Mine!
By Conservatives have made a concerted effort to portray public opposition to health care reform as an ideological rejection of liberalism and government. The truth is that people who don’t have government health insurance support the Affordable Care Act. The only opposition comes from people who already benefit from single-payer health care. They’re not opposed to government health care — they’re worried that providing health insurance to others will come at their expense.
To make an additional side point, It’s not just that the Palin’s “death panels” line was making up something that doesn’t exist. As sophisticated conservative philosopher Ray Stevens inadvertently pointed put, the underlying premise of Republican discourse about the ABA was that the government should keep its grubby paws of people’s taxpayer-funded single-payer healthcare.