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

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148. Actually, the Dems who met with Obama met to make a few fixes. Even Landrieu this morning defended

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the law very strongly.

The media do what they always do: support people they identify with (professionals, ...) and ignore the poor and lower middle class. They are the same people who want to see government spending reduced, social security reformed and Medicare age increased. These are the same people who rarely cared about people having their policies cancelled before (or rarely). These are the same people who have ignored people with preexisting conditions except when it was fashionable to talk about them or when they were all of a sudden hurt by these rules. These people are reporting for their own side(and those who do not understand that killing the law is not an option and that political jockeying is abject ).

And, as I said, there was no solutions that would have not seen some premiums increased and double, not status quo, not single payer, not ACA.

So, really, the two only questions are the following:

= Can we help those who are really in difficulty (not talking about a lawyer seeing $100 increase a month. This is ridiculous).
= Can we fix the website so that people can actually find the information?
= Stop defending "you wont have to change your insurance" as more than a rhetorical effect that was true for most, though inaccurate. There are ample signs that he knew it. If anything, he did not deny it during the healthcare meeting with Congress and he would have to be an idiot not to know it.

Those are the real questions that need to be fixed. Now, I am probably among the few that think some small changes would not hurt, for example force the insurance companies to finish their yearly contracts so that everybody does not have to register at the same time. But panicking is useless and cruel.