"Make my day!" is the reaction of White House political advisor David Axelrod to the prospect of critics making an issue of Obamacare this fall. His view (and hope) is that once enough people think they are getting free or reduced price health care--paid for by "the government"--they will never let it be taken away. He may be wrong, at least in the 2010 election, but he may be right long term.
Therefore, if conservatives want to deal with the looming takeover of medical care, they are going to have to come up with something more than a call for "Repeal." Sadly, the insurance industry, Big Pharma and the American Medical Association, as well as platoons of big foundations, have bought into the idea that the government should, indeed, run medical care. It is the public that the Administration and Democratic majority in Congress has defeated, and the public, as such, doesn't fund much research.
Therefore, it will take a lot of careful thought and planning in coming months to develop the ideas and methods to disentangle Obamacare--even if Republicans regain one or both houses of Congress--and to propose something else.
The question, therefore, is what is the "something else"? There is no need for an answer today, but there will be soon.
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