All that Obamacare has succeeded in doing is throwing hundreds of thousands - and probably millions - who were paying for their own healthcare, out of their plans. At the same time, it is putting hundreds of thousands on 100% state funded Medicaid. Then, it proceeds to penalize the working people thrown off their own plans along with the young and healthy who will not participate in funding this program.
This is the real tragedy of this program.
A stay of the individual mandate will not help millions who have lost their old plans. Frankly, some hard-working middle class people are going to die because of this.
85% of the people in the country had healthcare before Obamacare. All they really wanted to know was that they would not be affected. Obama made promises that they would not be affected, they believed him. Obama lied, and now they are being impacted on a very important matter which Obama and the Democratic Party stated in clear terms they would not be affected by.
The general public is only now beginning to realize what 'Obamacare' is and what it means for them personally.
As that reality settles, the consequences to the Democrats will be extreme.
The hate is going viral.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/crisis-time-obamacare-130406721.html
"Middle income consumers are starting to get hit with sticker shock as previously low-priced plans get canceled and replaced with higher-dollar coverage.
Stories of consumers getting plans canceled directly contradict Obama's promise that people who like their plans could keep them under the new law. "
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"Even if the mandate is delayed, the millions of young, healthy and currently uninsured people the law depends on to make the economics work could ultimately decide paying the penalty is better than buying insurance. That could spark a "death spiral" for the law, an outcome that would be devastating for the Obama presidency and Democrats hopes in 2014 and beyond."
Note : 3320 comments on that article. Read them. They're Similar to comments on healthcare.gov Facebook page.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...aw-is-causing-thousands-to-lose-coverage.html
"Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people - about half of its individual business in the state. Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent."
"Blue Shield of California sent roughly 119,000 cancellation notices out in mid-September, about 60 percent of its individual business. About two-thirds of those policyholders will see rate increases in their new policies, said spokesman Steve Shivinsky."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/28/californian-i-was-all-obamacare-until-i-got-bill/
This one pretty much sums up the Democrats prospectus in 2014 :
“She said, ‘I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,’
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