What is the real reason Republicans are against "Obamacare"?

[kentuck]

I know the reasons many on DU do not support it but I don't hear Repubs ever talking about a single payer? They hate Obamacare for different reasons, it appears?

They didn't hate it when Bob Dole proposed it. At least, I don't recall the vehemence as it is over Obamacare.

Why do they dislike it so much?

Would they really shut down the government rather than have Obamacare go into full effect? I don't understand their passionate opposition to the plan?

[elleng]

1. OBAMA

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Because it's "Obamacare" and not "Bushcare" or "McCaincare" or "Romneycare".

Just another in their effort to try to ensure that our president can never achieve anything (which of course is folly, since he has accomplished much despite their best efforts at obstruction). One could say just nasty post-citizens united, Koch, ALEC partisan politics. Another could say it includes a large dose of racism.

[SHRED]

3. Because they are willfully ignorant

[seabeyond]

4. they know it is a first step to socialized health care. nt

[Just Saying]

8. Yep n/t

[babylonsister]

5. Because the black man got this right; it's a brilliant idea that

was a long time in coming, will help people, passed by the Senate and House, is the law of the land. It's already showing progress, but I'm sorry to say, because it's now OBAMACare, it's reviled.

[spanone]

6. ...

he's different than bob dole

[Just Saying]

7. Because the Insurance industry are big time contributors to Republicans

And they don't want anyone telling them how to profit from sick people.

[kentuck]

9. I think you may be right.

[Just Saying]

14. I know people in that industry.

They had a fundraiser in their home for Bush and a Republican lawmaker regularly spent time in their guest room. They used to joke about it.

[NYC_SKP]

10. They drink the KoolAid that says that programs like these create a welfare state.

But somehow miss the part about the corporate welfare state that has been created that helps put regular folk into debt.

[Taitertots]

11. Because if they didn't howl against it, it would probably be pretty popular

-They know the Republican base (Old Fox News Watchers) need medical care that the current system will deny them
-Robomneycare was the plan that they were going to push.
-They know it is a stepping stone toward universal single payer

[Skittles]

12. their biggest fear is an Obama triumph proving to be popular

they don't give a flying f*** about problems people have with health insurance / health care - they actively pimp for the companies who profit off of misery

[gopiscrap]

13. Greed

[delrem]

15. Some Dems are critical because it doesn't go far enough.

Some Dems think a single-payer system, designed after a study of the triumphs and flaws of the various single payer plans in the more progressive nations of the world, would make for a qualitative difference - that a socialist system is the only right way to go.

That's an argument that really hasn't been made, yet, in the US.

But Reps can't even imagine such a criticism. Reps in the US are well beyond the norms of "conservatism" and are, to be blunt, fascist. They don't want gov't regulation of *anything*, so *any* affordable care act would be anathema to them, being by gov't edict.

By "Reps" I'm talking about the fuckhead fascists who call the tune, not the huge number of independents who might've voted Republican in this or that election. These voters shouldn't be treated the same. That huge number of independents, maybe more than half of Rep voters, are waiting for Dems to speak to them, to explain how regulation has helped others over the whole world and can help them.

[defacto7]

16. Because it might work. n/t

[The Second Stone]

17. They aren't against it, they are for it. It originated with them to line

insurance company pockets. They howl about it as a defensive line to keep the government from paying for all of it.

[olddots]

18. could it be

because they have less brain's , guts and decency than one of my dog's turds after she eats a lizard ?