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In reply to the discussion: Why are Americans so resistant to Universal Healthcare? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)irrationally hostile and downright immoral.
But let's toss in how this happened: Huge money was spent to grow normal right-wing resistance to progressive programs far beyond what it had been -- with the end goal of eliminating most to all (depending on how extreme the ideology) taxes and regulations on the wealthy--permanently.
Obamacare was a real setback for anti-tax plutocrats, to put it mildly. They were planning to destroy Medicare and the VA when they had a whole new huge redistributive program they had to destroy first. Ryan's disastrous "little" step toward dismantling the ACA would have cut nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion!) from its budget. Poor dears...
Btw, the $1 trillion "saved" was intended to temporarily offset big tax cuts planned with their big tax "reform" package.