Republicans are doing everything they can to prevent Americans from having what they have. Health care.

It was no big deal when Republicans opposed health care for all, we kind of knew they would.

But the dynamic has changed…dramatically. And now everyone in the U.S. should be, I hope, fed up to here with their tantrums. The difference is a national health care plan. 

Simply put; Republicans are now doing everything they can politically, to kick families of Medicaid and keep Americans from getting subsidized health care for themselves and their families.

It’s under this new reality that we should all be “mad as hell.” Where are the conservatives who hate it when somebody else gets something they don't have? 

Republicans want to take our health care away in every way possible, day after day, vote after vote...while we pay for theirs? They're rubbing our faces in it. 

After all this, it's time to pull their taxpayer health care plans in the event we lose ours.

Here's Chris Hayes, who first got me thinking:



What fired me up was this article in Mother Jones:

Kevin Drum: The Republican Temper Tantrum Against Obamacare Continues.

Still, the absolute fury that it continues to generate even now, three years after passage, is remarkable. The fury is so deep that an expansion of healthcare to the poor and working classes has become a part of the culture wars every bit as bitter and divisive as guns, gays, and abortion. Jon Cohn revs himself up to write about this today:

"As you have read … the federal government is starting a public education campaign about Obamacare—not to promote the law, mind you, but simply to inform the public about the new insurance options that will be available once the law takes full effect. In 2005, the Bush Administration ran a similar campaign to let seniors know about the Medicare drug benefit. 

As word spread that the Obama Administration had approached professional sports leagues about forging a similar partnership, GOP leaders warned the leagues to stay away. “It is difficult for us to remember another occasion when [a] major sports league took public sides in such a highly polarized public debate,” (said Sen.’s) Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn."

Conservatives remain so spittle-flecked angry about it that they can't even abide the thought of a sports league helping to run a public education campaign that reduces confusion about who's entitled to what. Even now, they desperately want it to fail. And they're going to do everything they can to help it fail, even if that means screwing over their own constituents. It's a temper tantrum possibly unequalled in American political history. And it's revolting.