Why are they angry at Obama, but not their insurers?

[Ken Burch]

Why do so few of the people who've complained about the cancellations blame the insurance companies for giving the policies that were gourmet shitburgers?

How did the rage get so badly misdierected here?

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Outrage at our saintly corporate masters?

Heresy!

[RKP5637]

3. Excellent question! I chalk it up to Idiocracy on their part. n/t

[Moliere]

4. Easy - coordinated messaging

M$M & Republicans all say it's Obama's fault, and exactly nobody with any kind of megaphone says the insurance companies are at fault

[MythosMaster]

5. Because they are being manipulated and led.

[Deep13]

6. They accept as normal that companies will screw them any chance they can.

Getting angry at corporate greed is like getting angry at a tornado. It is just an inevitable fact of life. They do not seem to understand that the people running those companies made a conscious decision to screw people.

[truebluegreen]

7. As poster#5 stated, they were manipulated and led.

A better question is why was the administration surprised? Heck, why was anyone surprised?

[Historic NY]

8. Obama didn't cancel their junk insurance policies...

if anything he made companies enhance them

[Blecht]

9. They watch TV

And the TV tells them to be angry at Democrats.

[progressoid]

10. Because Obama made them do it.

Duh.

[bluestate10]

11. People are mad at the President because they are trapped in a box with no clear way out.

Governors and Legislatures in the states where the great majority of the mad people live have not helped at all. But the President and ALL of his staff that was associated with the ACA roll out should have known they would get no help in states where governors and legislatures were suing to eliminate ACA legislation and actively doing anything they could to damage implementation in other ways. The President and his ACA implementers were asleep at the wheel, they let people in the balking states down, many of those people dearly wanted the ACA to roar in.

A lot of the anger are coming from people that hate the President and would hate him regardless of how much good he does. But a lot of the anger is also coming from people that want the President and ACA to succeed and now feel that they were let down by the clumsy roll out of the ACA website and communication about how people could get signed up even if the website wasn't working.

[arthritisR_US]

12. Same reason they vote against their own best

interest, absolute morons incapable if critical or logical thought.

[Bigmack]

13. They are angry at Obama...

... because he's black.

Sorry... somebody had to say it.

It's the root cause of the vast majority of the Obama hatred out there.

They'll blame him for the tornados in the Midwest next.

[Luminous Animal]

14. Because the god damned thing was written by insurers and Obama let them write it.

[RC]

15. +1000

Factual, realistic prose.