Republican Anecdotal Conveniences:

[HughBeaumont]

* The Friend(s) from Canada that have been a) wronged by the Canadian health system or b) forced to come to America for "life-threatening" surgery to "avoid the long waiting lists".

* The Friend who Came to America from Europe/Cuba/Scandanavia/Canada to "escape (insert Repub boogeyman prefix here)ism".

* A Friend who's a Small Businessperson (makes over 250k a year, naturally) who will have to either close up shop or fire his workers because his taxes are going up 3.6 percent. Of course, they seem to omit the part about the first $250k still taxed at normal rates.

* One or two scandal-ridden Democratic politicians (For an extreme case, see: Cuyahoga County, Ohio) who at worst commit either perjury or white collar crime, while overlooking their own party's majority of lying, warmongering, laissez-failing, tax-wasting and thieving gems.

* A poor person or persons (usually, minorities) they've worked with once who "gamed the system".

* "Welfare queens" they've seen or heard of, but usually can't name (see above).

* Someone they know (or themselves) whose health insurance premiums are going up "because of Obamacare". You know, because those benevolent private insurance conglomerates are perfectly innocent of profiteering and only have your best interests in mind :eyes:

Any that I missed?