How is Obamacare not a disaster for the Democratic party? (revised)

[BlueStreak]

47. They DO decrease in many markets -- even with the coverage being vastly superior to pre-ACA

Look at Detroit and most locations in California for example. I think I counted more than 15 competitors in Wayne County Michigan, and gold plans for a 50-year old with no subsidy at all were in the range of $300-500. That is a fantastic deal. If anybody was paying less than that before, they were paying for junk.

And let's talk about all this high-deductible crap. Yeah, I had a high-deductible HSA policy. I was forced into it because regular policies were completely price prohibitive. Now some people are talking like it was some kind of privilege to have a high deductible policy. What sheer nonsense.

Unfortunately the competition is not uniform Those same policies that cost $300-$500 in Detroit are closer to $1000 in Indianapolis where there are only 2 competitors who obviously colluded on their pricing. This is where the public option would have helped enormously.

But on a crass political level, it is mostly the reliable red states that have sabotaged the program, and that means most of the people who truly are paying more for less are in states that typically vote Republican. From an electoral college standpoint, that is no loss at all, although it may hurt our chances of picking up House seats and retaining Senate seats.

But a lot changes before the next election. By April most people will be dealing with facts instead of fears.