Alan: "Risk pools" are diluted by the requirement of including everyone and the cost goes up. In some pools, the cost becomes so prohibitive that the private insurer stops offering the plan. On balance ten times as many Americans will get better insurance at lower cost. Many of them, who were "locked out" by private insurance "death panels" will get insurance for the first time.
Lest we forget... Obama's preference has always been for single payer healthcare.
This one graph tells the tale:
"National Geographic: Per Capita Healthcare Expenditure Correlated To Longevity"
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Loyal Obama supporters, cancelled by Obamacare. "San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are "cradle Democrats." They have donated to the liberal group Organizing for America and worked the phone banks a year ago for President Obama's re-election. Since 1995, Hammack and Brothers have received their health coverage from Kaiser Permanente, where Brothers worked until 2009 as a dietitian and diabetes educator. The couple -- Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 -- have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage -- a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The couple would need to find another one. The cost would be around double what they pay now, but the benefits would be worse." Charles Ornstein in ProPublica
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