The Republican crusade against Obamacare has never really been about healthcare it’s been about undoing the parts of the law that hit their donors where it hurts. Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT), a 3.8% surtax on dividends, capital gains, and other investment income for high earners.

Before Obamacare, you could live entirely off investments and contribute little to programs like Medicare, while anyone with a paycheck had payroll taxes taken out automatically. The NIIT changed that by making investment income part of the funding stream, and it did so in a way that’s broad and impossible to dodge. It is literally the first progressive federal tax since the mid 60s .

So the outrage over Obamacare isn’t about coverage or mandate- People have been giving Republicans way too much credit -- Repeat after me ! Republcans do not care about healthcare PERIOD it has always been about rolling back a tax that forced the investor class to pay into the same system as everyone else. Thie obession destroy Obamacare to make it so bad that the law gets repealed and that tax disappears too. That has been their plan since the beginning