Anecdotal? I lost my previous insurance and now have premiums so high I'm paying out the ass and can only hope to see some amount of refund if something actually catastrophic happens. I'm seriously at the point where I'll just take the penalty on my tax refund...I usually owe at the end of the year anyway, so fuck it.
Nation-wide, let's add it all up...roughly 6 million people lost their previous insurance (even though Obama said it wouldn't change) and barely 4 million have signed up to the new exchange...numbers are hard to track here, but on it's face that's a net loss of 2 million people. It's apples to oranges, and that actually makes it even worse...you have a lot of that 4 million who signed up who didn't have insurance to begin with, and you have a lot of that 6 million (like me) who haven't signed up because we'd lose money on the deal. To this let's add the "website debacle" as you put it, and the fact that it's another thousand pages of bullshit bureaucracy that does absolutely nothing to actually help healthcare in the US.
Progress without logic isn't progress at all. It's just mouth service.
The illogical part of this debate is that the right is just anti-aca. That's it. No amount of talking about it can help with this. Take a look at this thread. People are calling the program a failure when it's barely even started. How the fuck do any of you know it's a failure? Bad website or not, they hit their targets, which weren't even a real target. The 7million signups estimate came from the CBO's estimate of people needed for the exchanges. Obama adopted that number as a goal. Then they hit 8 million and the monkeys start screeching about something different.
The more we talk about this the more I realize that the PC right wingers have no fucking idea what they're talking about. None. Just banging away at the keyboards to make noise.
It's all becoming clear....one moment....yes, yes, I see it now...for dinner, you'll be having more of the same equine feces that Obummer and the liberal media have been serving up for the last 6+ years...ah! and you'll be having guests! Back, cwolff, Allereli and Warriorbird! Good thing there's plenty to go around!![]()
Last edited by Wrathbringer; 04-24-2014 at 05:37 PM.