This odd belief system that the republicans are responsible for the ACA clusterfuck.

[TheKentuckian]

169. No it won't these families will just pay more because they can be covered at work

So most of them will have a parent + children and the spouse will have to pick up coverage. Their care will not be more affordable, it will become more costly.
This also increases their costs if care is utilized because these spouse's expenses will not be accumulating toward deductibles and max out of pockets.

These folks are restricted from the exchanges, in fact it will create more individual plans for the cartel rather than more folks on the exchanges, which are heavily firewalled. The intent is to keep people off of them if at all possible not for them to become the American marketplace for coverage.

Another crappy surprise for those of us that work for half way decent companies (and this one is the fault of the law rather than an excuse to hide behind like we've been discussing) is the section of the law that dictates the cost of coverage be reported because it kill banding which socializes costs some by having higher earners subsidize premium costs of those lower on the scale. So insurance will be less affordable for some us folks too (though I doubt many greedy ass companies do the same so the number impacted may not be too high).

Hey, folks can grasp that eggs have to be broken to make an omelet but being dismissive and defensive about real dollars in struggling folks pockets is not going to help a damn thing at all.

There also booby traps laid here because while we got zero votes in the Senate and only one in the House, we did accept TeaPubliKlan amendments in the scores (over 100) which will be poison in the well because that is what the wicked fuckers do. None of these concessions bought a single opposition vote or a moments peace or a single roadblock being removed and there will be negative impacts from playing the lame and wrongheaded "bipartisanship" game and that is wholly our side's fault for going along.