Obamacare Shows How Americans Are Becoming Jerks

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29. Then again, maybe people were responding to the WORDING of the question

specifically :
"Do you think it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to make sure that all Americans have health care coverage..."

The wording corresponds closely to the eventual, grotesque form which the health care so-called reform took: the government forcing everyone to buy private insurance. The wording is more or less just an expansion of the term "mandate". The unpopularity of the mandate has always been well known.

Paid up insurance "coverage" is not the same thing as health care, as millions have discovered to their disgust and dismay. "Making sure" that all "Americans have" paid off insurance racketeers, by strong arm methods of government, is a far fucking cry from providing health care. People know they now have an OBLIGATION from government, not a guarantee. The obligation is a tax paid to a private entity. They know that wasn't the way it was supposed to happen, and they're unhappy about it.

Maybe people aren't jerks, but are simply reacting defensively and predictably to the jerks in office and to the corporate jerks behind them with their hands up their asses making their jaws flap.