"Why Obamacare Could Help the Democrats in 2014"

[applegrove]

Why Obamacare Could Help the Democrats in 2014

By Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/05/why-obamacare-could-help-the-democrats-in-2014.html

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And here’s the key thing. It gave me loads of choices. I pretended to be a 35-year-old man from Kansas with a spouse and child. Without even having to enter my fake income, the site delivered me in a split second to a page with loads of plan options.

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How many options? An amazing 42, to be precise. Forty-two plans! That might be more than the number of available potato-chip flavors in America. I would have to think it will shock people, in a highly positive way, to see they have so many choices. And most of all, it will feel…American. Something that offers a person 42 options ain’t socialism, as Americans know in their bones.

The plans ranged from $70 a month, which would have covered only me, to $742 a month for the Rolls-Royce family version, with $0 deductible and $6,500 out-of-pocket. It was an astonishing menu. And take it from a guy who just moved house and has been on the phone and online interminably with private-sector service-providers, mostly but hardly limited to the cable/Internet/phone company: This looked easy. The interface was great, really user-friendly, really clear.

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So while I’ve known they were on the wrong side of history, I have feared they were on the right side of the politics. Well, I’m starting to think otherwise. No American who has 42 choices is going to feel like the jackboot of the state is stomping on his neck. And sometime next year, the people in the states that didn’t take Medicaid money are going to start noticing something else: that in a lot of cases, they’re going to be paying more for the same plan that a person in a participating state is paying. How’s that going to go down, Rick Perry?


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[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[Laelth]

2. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Cha]

3. Michael Tomasky is a treasure, applegrove.. I'll read this

when I get back from the store.

[Cha]

4. Thanks a Lot, Tomasky.. for that big ol ugly

pic of boner.. lol.

boner dumber than shit.. but, he knows it's a Law.. he just likes to talk down to his stupid sychophants.. cause, what do they know .

Snips from your link, applegrove..

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..I just did, for the first time in weeks, an hour before scribbling these sentences. I was amazed. It was lightning fast. Explanations were clear and straightforward. Instead of bureaucratese, I encountered something I didn’t expect at all: plain English!

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"..How many options? An amazing 42, to be precise. Forty-two plans! That might be more than the number of available potato-chip flavors in America. I would have to think it will shock people, in a highly positive way, to see they have so many choices. And most of all, it will feel…American. Something that offers a person 42 options ain’t socialism, as Americans know in their bones."

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So while I’ve known they were on the wrong side of history, I have feared they were on the right side of the politics. Well, I’m starting to think otherwise. No American who has 42 choices is going to feel like the jackboot of the state is stomping on his neck. And sometime next year, the people in the states that didn’t take Medicaid money are going to start noticing something else: that in a lot of cases, they’re going to be paying more for the same plan that a person in a participating state is paying. How’s that going to go down, Rick Perry?

Not me.. I never lost confidence that once the kinks were out that ACA/ObamaCare would and will the winner for the American People.

Thanks applegrove.. I wish more people would read this report from MT.. he has a way with his words.

I went to the link to read it all and just realized the snips I got were some of the same ones as yours.. oh well!