How the left and progressive foundations gave us ObamaCare -- a law hated by so many

Fox News reports:

As pundits and the public eagerly await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act – aka ObamaCare – it’s worth pondering how a nation mired in a debt crisis and an economic recession has become embroiled in a political fight that addresses neither problem.

This quandary is all the more puzzling because polls show that half the country, including nearly 40 percent of Democrats, opposes all or part of the health care law. But then, popular appeal was never a factor in ObamaCare's passage. When President Obama assumed office, public opinion and a strong bipartisan consensus held that the economy was the primary issue facing the country. Deaf to the national mood, the president instead declared that “we can no longer afford to put health care reform on hold.”