Most Americans oppose health law but like provisions

[TheKentuckian]

40. The argument that the poor insurance companies wouldn't be able to make it is not a selling point

For decades the insurance companies haven't given a shit if the people make it and still don't.

They are a criminal cartel and have been nowhere near regulated to the point that you give over the population to them and enshrine them as too big to fail and a de facto arm of the Federal government in exchange for a few pay to play features. To add insult to injury, the overwhelming majority of the population is subjected to an individual mandate, a personal responsibility but our employers decide what we get and how much it costs and as such we are forced to buy from the company store by law.

Advice to the pro crowd though, you are never going to sell the bill by pressing obvious features. That tactic works when you are not required to overcome high levels of negativity in peoples minds, they know it is a hell of a lot more than what the band is beating.
I think the technique has made all the hay it is going to and I don't think it would be a significant difference if the TeaPubliKlans were the ones selling their bill instead of Democrats in net numbers, no doubt many more TeaPubliKlans would magically be okay with it but they would offset by Democrats flipping, no longer with the level of trust on dicey legislation once it isn't their team's plan anymore.

I've opposed the idea for well over a decade, it doesn't matter to me who is selling it or who votes for it. I've offered alternate mandate set ups that I could find tolerable. I've proposed alternative plans of various structures spanning from market based reform to a NHS. I am not married to a particular approach but I am against this one and have been long before hearing of Barack Obama and even supported the reform effort until it came clear that the old Heritage Foundation boondoggle was being resurrected and pushed by Democrats.