Health Care Law not Unrepealable Like Social Security and Medicare

The linked article (click on the blog title, as always), discusses some very salient reasons why attempting to repeal the health care law is not akin to attempting a repeal other entitlement programs. Here are the Cliffs Notes: 1. Social Security and Medicare are entitlement programs that benefit those that pay for them. The health care bill, on the other hand, is paid for by Medicare beneficiaries and the wealthy, neither of whom are likely to receive the benefits. 2. The health care bill is perceived as a redistributive mechanism and is more similar to government programs that have been repealed such as the WPA, CCC and OEO. 3. The health care bill started on different footing than Social Security or Medicare. (This is my favorite point because everyone misrepresents this and claims that those programs received opposition similar to the health care bill.) The fact is, Social Security and Medicare did not start out as controversial programs and passed with significant support from the minority party. 4. It is not unthinkable for the GOP to win back both houses of Congress in November and gain a Senate supermajority and the Presidency in 2012.