I never argued (or even thought) you're a partisan, I simply would like to have a explanation, dispassionate if possible (with you that seems the case) as I'm one of those baffled foreigners mentioned by The Economist, having a hard time understanding why this generate so much passion.
After all, in essense, it's Romneycare and that seems to work in Massachusets. Now, I'm well aware that Heritage has long disowned it, and Romney argued it should be up to individual states (if my memory is correct, this is from the presidential debates), but why it generates such heated passion that we have active attemts at sabotage the law, a government shutdown, and possibly a US debt default (and I can assure you, all bets are off if the latter should happen).
Now, what you seem to say is that it's more the unilateral way the law was introduced (which, as far as I know, was mostly done in backroom deals), steamrolling any opposition, than the law as such that generates such heated passion I'm not sure whether you're talking about your personal feelings or describing the opposition as such.
In case of the latter, from what I'm reading, it seems more the law as such, but I'm merely an outside observer, albeit a concerned one as this could have a major impact in the markets anytime soon.
My own country certainly isn't without its own disfunctional political folklore (shutting down the government, let alone an engineered default is just that), luckily enough it's too small to have much impact beyond our borders for anyone to take much notice..