Republicans have poured millions of dollars into a Senate ad in Michigan castigating Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters, who voted for the Affordable Care Act, for done near killing a woman named Julie Boonstra, who has cancer. Boonstra -- who also turned out to be the ex-wife of a Republican county chairman -- sadly looks into the camera and explains how she had a wonderful insurance plan to treat her cancer, but Obamacare cancelled it, and now she could die: It's hard to figure out how regulations preventing insurers from charging higher rates to people with preexisting conditions (like cancer) could cause a cancer patient to have to pay more for her insurance. There are people who have to pay more for their insurance now, but they're healthy and affluent, and their rates are rising precisely to pay for care for sick customers like Boonstra, And sure enough, the Detroit News investigates the options available to Boonstra, and it turns out she will be paying less under Obamacare, not more: Boonstra was overjoyed to learn that, contrary to the fears stoked by Republican operatives manipulating her tragedy in order to deny medical care to fellow sick people, she will actually be saving money now. Just kidding! She is firmly in denial: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/republican-refuses-to-believe-aca-wont-kill-her.html
What's that got to do with this thread or Obamacare? Well...other than the obvious attempt at deflection on your part.
Just giving an example of an 'inconvenient truth', why would I want to deflect a positive Obamacare thread that I started?
Let's talk "inconvenient truths": (1) Odumbocare web site a disaster (2) Odumbocare implementation cost way over budget with slush fund $$$ in the mix http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ob...vices-Kathleen-Sebelius/2014/03/07/id/556714/ (3) Odumbocare enrollment well below expectations (4) Odumbocare offers special waivers many times during the rollout (5) Sebelius refuses to answer basic questions on the system/web site (6) Web site full of bugs and has security issues (7) Individuals who were told they could keep their plans were lied to by Odumbo (8) Those who were told they could keep their doctors found that to not always be true (9) Businesses rolling back hours on employees to less than 30 hours per week (10) Millions of people lost coverage due to Odumbocare That's a start .... bet we could see another 50 "inconvenient truths" added by others.
Obama care seems to be extremely screwed up. At least that's how it is being advertized. But there are signs that,regardless of the screw-ups, it is going to be better than what we had before. Now, if only we could have single payer, then we'd at least have a chance to have medical care as good as that in other countries, and at a fraction of our present cost. God bless America. Keep working on it America. Eventually you might get it right.