Why the health care law scares the GOP

A New York Times columnist analyzes Missouri's response to the federal offer to expand Medicaid in the state and other moves that have left some conservatives scratching their heads. Economic Scene writer Eduardo Porter points to Tea Party activists.

"The argument that half the Republican Party has simply lost its mind has to be an unsatisfactory answer," he writes, "especially considering the sophistication of some of the deep-pocketed backers of the Tea Party insurgency. ...

"As it turns out, the core Tea Party demographic — working white men between the ages of 45 and 64 — would do fairly well under the law."
 
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