Obamacare

So let's review: if a President John McCain (or a George W. Bush, for that matter) had passed a "health reform" bill that forced individuals buy health insurance in a highly unregulated market, slashed money going to the poor and elderly through cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, began to tax health benefits of mainly union workers to encourage companies to slash their insurance programs and pushed anti-abortion clauses into the deal, would it be praised as a progressive bill battling the inequities in our society? Somehow I don't think so...