I think a similar thing would happen nationally. Polls show that when people are asked about the various major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (but are no

I think a similar thing would happen nationally. Polls show that when people are asked about the various major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (but are not told that they are being asked about that Act, so that they aren't prejudiced by the ridiculous claims the Tea Party spread about it, such as the "death panel" fantasy) they are overwhelming in favor of everything except the mandate. But the mandate is what makes everything else possible. This is like saying "we polled peopled about getting more services from the government and they were in favor of it except for the parts about taxes going up". Which, as of this morning, is essentially what's going on as the "mandate" is now going to have to be implemented as a tax penalty. So that polling just shows how clueless people are about how this whole scheme works. No way would the Republicans be able to get repeal of those through without committing political suicide with the voters. I think the more likely proposal would be to "put it all back the way it was before" instead of a full government takeover. At that point the current situation would be ,rightly, described as being caused by the government (i.e. ObamaCare). I'm not sure how easy a sell a full government take over would be.