Alan: Pay close attention to stories of people deprived of existing health insurance and you will note that they are all white. America -- like the rest of the world -- is going through massive economic re-calibration. Most of the people who will suffer from this long overdue re-calibration are Caucasians deprived of their previous entitlements.
Yes, it hurts, but not as much as the world of hurt that those entitlements rained down on people of color.
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Obamacare will force some to pay more for the same coverage. "The truth is that, until now, people in this situation have been among the few, fortunate souls for whom American health insurance is a bargain. They've been relatively healthy, and they've had relatively good incomes, making it possible to buy comprehensive policies at prices they could afford. But the practices that made insurance cheap for them made it expensive--and in many cases unavalable--for others. Their good fortune was the by-product of bad fortune for many others. As one ends, so must the other." Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic
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