I have long believed that a lot of the folks who said Obamacare was the worst thing ever — worse than Watergate, the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition and cole slaw combined — would have had no problem with it if it had been passed by President Mitt Romney. They didn't really think that arranging health insurance for poor and sick people was comparable to mass genocide or anything of the sort.
The problem was that it was a "win" for that president and a bit of evidence that he and his kind were actually running America. They had a lot of problem with the "Obama" part of "Obamacare." Well now, those people should have no problem with what some are calling "Trumpcare," even though Trump doesn't seem too enthusiastic about it and there's no evidence that he really knows how it works. (It does hand him the problem of how to explain how it matches his election promises.)
Well, according to Jonathan Chait, the far-right has a lot of problems with the "care" part of "Trumpcare." They don't like the idea that the government should even be in the business of providing care to Americans or making sure they can get it. Like Mr. Chait, I think it's refreshing that this motive — which many have had but few have admitted — is coming out into the open. That's what a lot of the arguing is really about.