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there's a huge Republican crisis developing it's not because they said
something incredibly anti-gay are against women
it's simply a crisis as a result Obamacare
working better and better almost
every day every week we have better and better numbers as Eugene Robinson right
in the washington post this
is the republican worst nightmare that is coming true
nearly 1.2 million people signed up last month for insurance through the
Affordable Care Act exchanges
and this is really just not convenient for republicans around the world it
seems like
their two-pronged strategy for the election which
is bashing Obama and bashing Obama Care
is at least going to take some whatever hit because Obamacare really is doing
quite well the Obama administration
now since the program's lacking launch because at the website troubles
has now achieved enrollments that had exceeded or matched expectations
depending on how it is measured
read that again surpassed expectations don't forget that the entire discussion
was that nobody was signing up Floridians are now
locking the Affordable Care Act plans almost 300,000
Florida resident seven rolled you the federal exchange in that figure
surged by eighty eight-percent in one month
as the website problems were fixed also
the the there are 3.3 million people
humoral accumulatively that have chosen insurance plans through the state and
federal exchanges
by the and January that is as a total
less than the administration had hoped for but well above the predictions are
those who
created new numbers based on how things were going after the initial rollout
and when you look more closely at the numbers they're even more encouraging if
you look at the proportion of young people
between 18 and 34 years old who chose insurance plans through the exchanges
that number
is also up 27 percent compared with an average of just
24 percent in previous months this was actually part of the
anti Obama care strategy remember that many
anti Obama Care people I don't even know what to call them
were saying to young people don't sign up the way to protest Obamacare is not
to sign up
knowing that the financial viability of the entire program is dependent upon
young people who statistically tend to be healthier
about signing up and kind of balancing out
the premium pool and lastly to add on to what Eugene Robinson writes in The
Washington Post
remember that these successes that we are now seeing now that the website is
all well
fixed up and working properly are in spite
have many republican governors refusing to create the state exchanges altogether
some saying no to the Medicaid expansion this
is really a crisis republicans have done just about everything they could
the stand in the way of Obamacare success and it is
clearly working right but
the war on Obamacare is not over if you go ahead still see all sorts have
skewed polls and misinformation about how it's not working and how
people were dying and now I you name it right as you know people were dying
before because of health care access to healthcare related issues
right right it's all nonsense but
I'm I'm glad to hear that supports this is good news in a logical rational world
that wasn't just subject to the constant left-right Democrat Republican political
posturing that the United States
people would be saying all people would be saying hey wait a second
you know the website didn't work that well but millions and millions of people
are signing up
people are are aka finding the best care
option as part of one of these federal or state exchanges
maybe this is viable maybe we should go further let's further explore
why it is that every other country and our level of development
has already implemented single-payer universal government-run health care
maybe we should do that unfortunately we have a barrage of right wing propaganda
and lobbyist funded revel in this country
that will withstand any success at least in terms of what we will see publicly
and we're going to have to continue pushing for better health care in this
country
in spite love the never-ending anti
anything where the government is involved anything were corporations
might have slightly less
say over our health care that we're just gonna have to keep fighting and remember
Obamacare gave the insurance companies
30 million new customers there's nothing socialist about it
at all