Either way, what the ACA should have done was serve as a confidence building exercise. Instead, this thing is beat-up from the feet, up. It is one giant exercise in pissing of voters with higher costs ranging in the thousands of dollars per year for products they do not want while the number of people it is helping are a paucity at best, if not an abject embarrassment.
Their dissatisfaction is being met with dismissive condescension of apologists sniffing that the proles just aren't smart enough to know what's best for them and they should be thanking their betters for saving them from such tedious "junk plans."
And since the corporations are the lynchpin of the entire venture they are also the indispensable element. They cannot be allowed to succumb to faltering revenue so they will siphon ever-increasing amounts of taxpayer money. If not then everybody loses their insurance, even those receiving tax credits at the end of the year.
Yes, that's right, you have to pay a year's worth of premiums and deductibles BEFORE you get a bigger check from the IRS. Remind me again how that helps the poor here and now.
That is, of course, assuming anyone can get anything done. The website isn't going to be fixed anytime soon. Calling the toll free number is pointless because navigators don't do anything other than enter your info into the website on your behalf. The information being spit-out to insurers is wildly inaccurate and the site has "limitless" security vulnerabilities. Even in the much ballyhooed state exchanges we're seeing are a disaster. The number of paid enrollees in Oregon is exactly: 0.
And then, the Democratic party, already on the verge of herd panic, is supposed to go to the voters with Dickensian eyes and say, "More, please." If the citizenry doesn't descend on Washington DC, raze the city and sow the ground with salt I will consider 2014 an electoral success.
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