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

[RBInMaine]

176. I don't think many are being "flippant". Here is something you must remember:

TAKE THE LONG VIEW. In time, as more and more people get into the markets, prices will come down across the board as risk is spread among a much larger pool and as companies fight for all this new business. That will make health insurance more affordable for anyone in that small universe who make too much for a subsidy. Look to Massachusetts for what happened there.

Next, Obama has ALREADY explicitly stated that insurance companies can extend these JUNK plans for a year as more and more people enter the marketplace. So he certainly isn't being "flippant." Some companies will do so. That will help some of these people. There may also be a legislative piece that can be tolerable and allow the grandfatherable people who were screwed over by the insurance companies keep their JUNK plans, and with time they will find that as prices come down they'll switch to better plans in the exchanges. Obama will NOT sign a TEAPUKE bill that guts the law and allows NEW JUNK plans that don't meet standards.

So let's take a deep breath here and allow this some time. I know that more and more people are going to be flooding into the new market as the new website becomes more and more repaired. It is already happening rapidly. I am sure we will be in a much better place just within a few months.