I'm sure some people in the Tea Party have the belief that some people just shouldn't have health care if they can't afford it, that it will cost too much etc etc etc.
But what it is really about in that circle is that this is the first step to a single payer system. It takes the current "acceptable" market based system and forces everyone to participate either by getting insurance or paying a fine. Once you have everyone participating in the system, directly paying for healthcare and, well, enjoying the healthcare they are receiving it is a much easier argument to say "you can have the same thing but it'll be cheaper if we go single payer". This is about the big insurance companies and health care conglomerates. They are the ones desperate to stop this walk towards a single payer system.
Of course, by behaving the way they are they might just give the Democrats the legislative power to move things further down the path to a single payer system.
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