Obama's "You can keep your plan" failed to anticipate how much Americans love cheap crappy plans

[BlueStreak]

29. +1, but I would state it a little differently

Instead of "Obama failed to anticipate how much Americans love cheap crappy plans", I would say

"We all failed to recognize just how crappy so many of these individual policies were."

After all, you only really know the plan isn't worth a bucket of pee until you actually have to use it in a big way. And statistically, most of us don't have to do that. So we assumed the policies were a lot better than they actually were. And when the Insurance companies were faced with the requirement to bring them up to a bard bones standard under ACA, many of these companies are showing their true colors.

"Do you realize how much more it would cost us to actually provide REAL coverage? We can't upgrade these policies. These policies were never designed to actually provide real health care."

I predict this will very quickly become the real story -- not the tick-tock of the healthcare.gov fixes. And that is as it should be. This ends up being a much more monumental moment than most of us ever realized.