Hurray for Health Reform By PAUL KRUGMAN

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10. As much as I agree with you

I don't think the impact will be as vast as you suggest. Possibly the GOP will attempt to make it so, but I'm dubious. The number of individuals that will be directly affected will be in the single digit percentages. Many of them will be the "transient" uninsured which means they are between employers providing coverage. No small number of them won't particularly be aware of the affect on them until they get their tax returns and realize they owe money, or have a smaller return than they are used to.

Many of them of course will already be republicans and so they'll just be finding ANOTHER excuse for their anger. In the end, in terms of moving votes one way or another, I don't think it will have a big effect. In essence it is the same reason that alot of people who ARE aided by HCR won't particularly notice, and the democrats won't be able to particularly campaign on the legislation. Most aren't affected (be design) by HCR. Of those that are, they won't necessarily notice (it will come with their new job and they won't realize it). Then of course there are those folks that SHOULD notice, but still will watch Fox News and vote GOP.

But I'm a bit with you in this sense. It won't be hard to find pissed off people to put on Fox News, and any other media outlet looking for a desire to do so. 2015, around tax time, is when alot of people might notice, and guess what's happening about then.