This is the opposite of the free market.
— Bill MaherIf collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.
— A.E. Samaan[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are motivated entirely by short-term rewards. A radical reshaping of the entire economy, for two election cycles’ worth of campaign cash – that was what this bill meant. It sounds absurdly reductive to say so, but there’s no other explanation that makes any sense.
— Matt TaibbiLet's run the experiment.
— Chris HayesEugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.
— A.E. SamaanThe thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
— Chris Hayes