A Democrat Finally Speaks The Truth About ObamaCare

The Democrat in question happens to be disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, but at least someone finally said it.

Weiner said this last night on Real Time in response to a Republican guest's criticism of ObamaCare:

The fact of the matter is you've got to compare it to what the status quo was. There are millions of Americans that have no health care.  You my friend are paying for them in an inefficient way.  So the Democrats came up with an idea.  We said: "You know what?  Let's borrow the idea that the Republicans keep talking about.  Let's let the market decide."  So we gave tax subsidies to people to buy a private product -- insurance.  That's the sum and substance of ObamaCare.  That's your idea!  Why don't you like it now that we wrote the law?

I'm not sure why the Democrats are have been so reluctant to give credit to the GOP for ObamaCare. Maybe they don't want to give credit to Republicans for coming up with an idea that actually has some merit, but I don't see what the harm would be now that every Republican opposes the individual mandate.

Prominent Democrats should bring up the GOP's authorship of the Affordable Care Act at every opportunity. Constantly repeating that ObamaCare was originally a Republican plan reinforces the notion that the GOP has become so radicalized that it won't even support its own ideas anymore.