When did DUers suddenly become conservatives?

[Johonny]

"I won't buy insurance if it's MANDATED to me!" You know what that sounds like to me? The teabagger that cries about social security (People should be responsible for their own retirement) and medicare (why should I pay for other peoples illness). You know those already mandated programs that if you work, you have to pay for and will break the law if you decide you're above paying them. Let's not forget the number one hated mandated program you have to pay for, the federal government. Really I don't see the big deal of a program that forces people to insure themselves. Even if the Dems passed universal health care it would come with a mandate that you be in it and pay for it. It's not like other western countries let you skate along until you get sick and then say "hey guys (cough, cough) I'm opting in now".

Did people really think health care was going to be free? The bill(s) sound like they will have many exemptions and stipends for those that can't afford or need assistance, or better yet the mandate will hopefully push the many people already eligible for full government assistance to sign up for it. Really the bill sounds progressive; since progressives have already produced many programs that are mandated, yet have clauses that help the poor and small business owners pay.

Oh I get some anger if the mandated insurance you have to buy is from a for profit private company, instead of an option for at least one not-for profit company or a government run program. But the anger over the word mandate. I don't get it. That sounds so... so teabag W America I can help but laugh.

If you think you're a liberal yet you're angry about a government mandated social program then you probably want to rethink if you're actually a liberal. More likely it's not the mandated part of the program that really makes you unhappy. I imagine it's more the convoluted back door manner of the program, the rather unbold way it tries to produce universal coverage and the fact as is the program run by Republicans can easily turn into an insurance industry cash cow. But anger over it being mandated? When health care reform finally arrived that it was going to arrive with a mandated social program. I thought was pretty much a given. I mean haven't you listen to the nutty teabaggers? Even they understood this.