This flippant attitude toward those harmed by the ACA will cost us 2014.

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120. You are right

Most people who will be getting the shaft live in states who didn't take Medicaid. I wish there were a way Obama could let them buy on the exchange at the maximum subsidized rate but I guess he doesn't have that kind of discrepancy.

There are, however, a lower (but much more vocal and likely to vote) number of people who will see an increase in their premiums because, well, often because their insurance company decided they just could do it, using the ACA as cover, but they are going up nonetheless, and we have to deal with it and find a way to help them out.

The ACA cost Dems preciously in 2010 and could end up doing so again in 2014. The worst case scenario is that the Rs grab the Senate, House and Presidency in 2016; it would be 2017 before anything could be done and hopefully too many people will be covered by then for the ACA's repeal to be politically possible. Obama will stick to his guns even if the party takes a hit in 2014 because this is his legacy. I believe he knows that in the long run this was the right thing to do. Right now people who don't make very much will for the first time ever be able to afford health care as it should be. But then I believe health care is a right and not a privilege.

Yes there need to be fixes, especially for the poor but also some who want to keep their cheaper policies, and surely those should be ironed out in the next few years. The Clintons will see to it if nothing else.