SAN DIEGO – If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that Republicans are against Obamacare.

Except that, according to Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein, they're really not.

"If McCain had won the 2008 elections, we'd still be talking about a health care reform bill right now, with all the same provisions," he told the audience at his Benefit Selling Expo keynote presentation on Tuesday. "The only thing different would be we'd be calling it McCainCare."

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