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In reply to the discussion: Remember our success story highlighted by the President? [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I live in NC, and Kay is acting silly. She should be smacking Gov Pope (yes, I know that's not the actual Govoner's name) because he won't expand Medicaid or set up a State run exchange.
By the 2014 elections, millions of people who never had insurance coverage will have it. Their friends and neighbors will know about it because they will tell them. They will encourage their friends and neighbors to sign up.
Its sad to see Democrats panicking and accepting the GOP narrative. Particularly when they are not proposing anything more than panic.
What you should be doing is telling all your friends that the best way to fix the ACA is to add a public option to the exchanges, something like Medicare for all. That plan would be better than any of the junk plans, and cost less than most of the private plans.
That's the correct response for dems going into 2014, not panic.