Don’t Let The Government Get Its Hands On Obamacare!

[phantom power]

The OP thinks this is just fine, at least in the long run. I disagree, on the grounds that it's yet another way in which people will fail to understand that government *isn't* the problem.

Lots of people having fun with this great report from Jason Cherkis at the Kentucky State Fair:

A middle-aged man in a red golf shirt shuffles up to a small folding table with gold trim, in a booth adorned with a flotilla of helium balloons, where government workers at the Kentucky State Fair are hawking the virtues of Kynect, the state’s health benefit exchange established by Obamacare.

The man is impressed. “This beats Obamacare I hope,” he mutters to one of the workers.

This goes along with all the polling evidence, which says that people like the actual provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but have no idea that those provisions are in fact the substance of that terrible, tyrannical “Obamacare” program they keep hearing about. And because the insurance exchanges that are at the heart of the program will be run at the state level, with many different names, we’ll have quite a few people happily signing up for Obamacare while denouncing the program and believing it has nothing to offer them.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/dont-let-the-government-get-its-hands-on-obamacare/

[Thinkingabout]

1. When I hear complaints about Obamacare and the promises of waiting in long lines to get health care

I have heard of waiting in lines in Canada, UK and France but an experience my friend is currently enduring proves the lines are here in the US and nit in France for sure. After suffering an fall which broke her leg and ankle in France she saw a Dr, orthopedic, xrays and a cast within two hours. It took 1 1/2 weeks to see an orthopedic here in the US. Socialized medicine in France works quiet well, our current health care does not work very well here.

[thetonka]

2. Might help if everyone stopped calling it Obamacare

IMHO, stupid name. A number of other politicians had a lot more involvement and deserve more credit than Obama for the ACA, but for the Republicans anything that has Obama's name on it is propaganda to support them.