The only really good argument against Obamacare I have read...

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...mainly because it acknowledges two things: first, that American healthcare is the most expensive in the world; and second, that "insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative", the point is how to do it. http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/27/kill_the_bills_do_health_reform_right?page=full&comments=true

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I'm not convinced that the American right would have accepted that "insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative" without Obama's health bill. Even if the bill fails, he has moved the debate from a question over, if we need health reform, to, how we need to reform health.

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Yes, but Krauthammer - in spite of the insults by one or two commentators over here - is a much more thoughtful person than the average right wing American commentator. And you can take that from me - I've read them all.

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Plus, there's a bloody awful lot of them who still think they can just destroy the Obama bills and leave nothing in their place. The most extraordinary thing is how many people seem to have forgotten that health reform is not only the one thing that Obama had been clear about, but the one thing that had been uncontested during the election - McCain had offered his own plan as well. Obama Derangement Syndrome seems to have recreated a past in which there was no dissatisfaction with the horrendous American system and no widespread call for reform.