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Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
10. This all really depends on how smoothly things go in the next year
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:31 PM
Aug 2013

If they roll things out smoothly, and peoples lives get better with no big headaches, approval will go up.

If the rollout goes poorly, exchanges don't work right or are confusing, approval will go down.

If more employers dump employees onto exchanges, blaming the ACA and the employees find they have worse coverage (or even just feel that way if it isn't justified) or are paying more, approval goes down. I imagine for a lot of UPS employees that is happening right now...

Come tax time when people who didn't enroll find themselves facing fines, especially young people, approval goes down.

If union workers find themselves taxed more because they have "Cadillac" plans hard won by their collective bargaining they will, not without cause, feel betrayed.

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