Comparison to Medicare doesn’t wash  Friday November 29, 2013
5:38 AM  With all due respect to Sen. Sherrod Brown, Obamacare
is nothing like Medicare. First, Medicare was passed on a
bipartisan basis in Congress, while Obamacare was rushed through
Congress (we have to pass the bill to find out what is in it)
with no Republican support.  Second, Medicare only affects those
who are 65 and older and participation is voluntary, while
Obamacare affects all citizens by forcing them to buy insurance
or face a punishment in the form of tax penalties. Additionally,
Medicare did not force the cancellations of more than 5 million
existing individual insurance policies nor the expected
cancellation of a majority of employer-provided policies by the
end of 2014. Those estimates are provided under the Federal
Register Rules and Regulations dated June 17, 2010, and known by
the White House since 2010.  Thus, the American people are
finding out the hard way that they were deceived by the promises
that if one likes his doctor