>>I'm not disputing that the AHA isn''t perfect. What I've been saying is that it's better than what he had, and the GOP wants to kill it at the expense of the American people so the rich can have a tax break and take healthcare away from 10's of millions of Americans in the process. They have nothing better to replace it with - it's just that Obama has his name on it, so it's gotta go - and screw everyone in the process if they have too.

I agree that dismantling individual mandate comes across as a spiteful repudiation, but will it change the outcome now that the taxpayer spigot is turned off? Seems to me the GOP is kicking a dead horse. And if and when they propose their alternative: unless they suddenly discover why individual mandate matters after all, then here we go again.