re: The biggest issue that my leftist friends now realize they ignored

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I tell them something like: "Like it or not, the majority of voters in this country didn't want Obamacare to begin with, and most of those people really didn't want tax money to pay for abortions, and none of them enjoyed their premiums increasing this year, and a lot of them actually can't afford those increases. If you can't empathize with that, nobody has a reason to empathize with anything you're saying."

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Which is why repealing Obamacare should be a top priority for Congress. The Democrats thought they were slick by basically forcing middleclass tax payers to pay for indigent healthcare through higher premiums, higher deductibles along with worse coverage. Voters have rejected their scheme.

The previous healthcare system was far from perfect but minor modifications would have allowed the free market to develop a cost/benefit model that would be vastly superior to Obamacare. The real issue is the Obama economy. There were/are millions of people without healthcare because they either jobless government dependents, are working in very low paying jobs or simply young and healthy enough that they don't see the need for health insurance. In short, improve the economy and most of the need for indigent healthcare will take care of itself.