Didn't Tom DeLay say that "no American is denied health care in America?" And yet so many right wingers like to say that health care is not a "right." The obvious question is, do you want to see people literally dying in the streets, in front of a hospital, because they cannot afford to pay for an appendectomy? Perhaps, if you happen to be the governor of the state of Arizona, the answer may be a resounding "of course!"
Will this "fly" among the non-right wing crazy population of the USA? Not likely, and at least DeLay knew that much, apparently. So where are the Democrats? Why can't they "speak truth to power," even in a "slam dunk" situation like this one? It seems to me that there are two possibilities. The first is that they are either not smart enough or just don't want to devote too much of their time to thinking about it. However, I think there is a more likely explanation, and it gets to the heart of this "issue." We all know that in the old "system," you could get health care in an "emergency" situation, but that you might have to go bankrupt or lose just about all your assets if you did not have good health care coverage. I don't know for sure, but considering how many bankruptcies there have been over the last ten to twenty year, and how many of them have been due to health care bills that could never be repaid, I'll assume that a huge percentage of the medical costs in such situations have been paid by the taxpayers.
The only reason for anyone on the "right" to oppose what I call Dole/Romney Care (or what the right wingers call "ObamaCare") is not that it isn't better than the highly dysfunctional and expensive "system" that existed, but that "corporate America" would have to pay a lot more, and the average taxpayer a lot less. Is there any other reason that is plausible? I realize that most rank-and-file "Tea Partiers" may think that George Washington himself would have opposed anything less than letting people die in the streets, and so it's possible that "leaders" like Romney may be telling them what they want to hear, but why aren't Democrats out there trumpeting the fact that more Americans will die and the taxpayers will pay a lot more if Dole/Romney Care (aka ObamaCare) is not fully implemented? DeLay pointed out, implicitly perhaps but clearly, that someone is going to pay no matter what, so why shouldn't the system be as efficient and functional as possible? Thus, does one have to conclude that Democrats, in general, are fearful of a loss of corporate money if they seem too enthusiastic about the Affordable Care Act?