Hurray for Health Reform By PAUL KRUGMAN

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16. You are entitled to join Krugman in believing the these MILLIONS will go along happily,

but I don't think so.

The projected number of uninsured by 2014 is between 40 MILLION and 70 MILLION Americans, and recent polls have shown most of these MILLIONS are going to be very surprised at what they will be required to buy.
Every one of these 40 - 70 MILLION WILL be directly affected.
Some, on the very bottom end, will be eligible for Medicaid (GOOD!).
The next lowest rung will get a "subsidy",
but most will be required to BUY "Bronze" (junk) Insurance on "The Exchange".
They won't all be Republicans, and I don't believe that very many of these MILLIONS are going to be delighted
at being forced to buy something they can't afford to use.

Last week, I had a conversation with an educated couple in my area who are active in the local Democratic Party,
and consider themselves well informed. We were in a group of 8 others who were active in our local Farmer's Market.
Two couples (4) in that group were on Medicare. The rest of us were uninsured, self-(un)employed, and praying to make it to Medicare before we got sick. I casually mentioned the Mandate in 2014, and the couple (the Party Activists) insisted that the ACA still contained a Public Option!!!
They refused to believe me on the spot when I informed them that it did not,
and accused me in public of "making stuff up to make Obama look bad!"
I received a phone call apology from them that night.

Nobody in that group of eight had a workable understanding of ACA, The Exchange, or The Mandate,
and these were educated, intelligent people.

Do yourself a favor, and ask a few of your friends of neighbors who aren't addicted to DU
how much they understand about the ACA, The Exchange, and the Mandate.