... I would just like to say that if I fell into a certain income bracket (read: -whatever bracket they deem high enough to be able to tax for this new policy-) and the government wanted to tax me extra in order for people with less income to have access to medical care, I would definitely, positively say..."Please, go ahead. I ain't no Scrooge."
If you're asking why the reds hate it, it's because the blues came up with it. Politics is really just one big game of Halo 3 Big Team Battle =/ Heck, there's even teabagging involved!