Because our inability to pass a good law is not a justification for passing a bad law. ObamaCare contributes to the factors that are destroying the healthcare industry in our country.
I think you really need to study the origins of our nation's health care system before you attempt to make the argument that the reforms that are currently in place need to be repealled. Believe me, what we now have under ObamaCare is preferable to the status quo. Now, would I have liked to have seen universal health care passed? Yes, because under such a system everyone would be paying into the health care system similar to what we currently due under Medicare. (BTW, the CLASS Act was the closest thing we had going towards UHC only it could never work as long as: 1) we still have Medicaid and Medicare in place; and 2) as long as young adults were allowed to come under their parent's insurance plan until reaching age 26.)
I would ask those who would rather see ObamaCare repealled really start to ask their GOP presidential hopefuls exactly what they'd replace the reforms with? Not one single GOP candidate has ever stated even slightly what they'd replace ObamaCare with. Yet, you have two candidates whose ideas on health care mirror at their core the essence of the individual mandate:
Romney = RomneyCare
Gingrich = a health care bond
All others = ? or at least they lean towards allowing health savings accounts which happen to be included in ObamaCare
I've stated in the Health Care forum and I'll echo it here: ObamaCare even with the individual mandate is the closest thing we'll get to UHC. And since most Americans already have health insurance either through their employer, their state (Medicaid), the fed (Medicare or the VA if you're a retired or disabled veteran), I really don't see what all the fuss is about concerning the individual mandate.
As for the GOP candidates themselves, I really want people to really think about the positions each candidate represents as outlined in the OP. Not one of the candidates have the interest of the "People" in mind. Everyone one of them would change the tax code, for example, to be more in favor of corporations or the wealth-class, not the working-class. Haven't we had enough of crony capitalism? Has not the deck been stacked enough in favor the corporate interest? None of the tax initiatives proposed by any of the GOP candidates would help the middle-class. NONE! And yet people will go out and vote for these people knowing full weel that none of the tax initiatives they've proposed actually work. Doubt me? Consider the fact that we've been under the Bush tax code structure now for atleast the last EIGHT YEARS and look at the state of the economy before Obama came into office.
Folks, you really need to get your heads out of the clouds where "supply-side economics" is concerned - because every GOP candidate supports this false taxation strategy - and really come to better understand the false argument of "marginal tax rates" as these candidates and their anti-tax sober rattlers, i.e., Grover Norquist, articulates them.
They argue "smaller government" yet the only federal agencies any of them would end are EPA, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Energy? Now ask yourself why? Why push to end these agencies now instead of when GW Bush was in office or Reagan for that matter? There's a clear agenda here, folks, and it has nothing to do with the perceived ineffectiveness of these agencies.
If you really want to better understand the state of our nation's economy and how we got to this point over the last 30-40 years, I'd encourage reading:
"Bad Money," by Kevin Phillips; or,
"The Big Con," by Jonathan Chait
