Why Obamacare Remains Unpopular (At Least With The Wealthy)

Alan: If wealthy Americans don't want higher premiums as part of the Affordable Care Act's plan to subsidize The Common Good they can "repeal and replace" Obamacare with a single payer system which will cut everyone's healthcare cost in half. 

"Obama's Preference For Single Payer"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/obamas-preference-for-single-payer.html

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"Progressives And Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Is Inevitable"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/progressives-and-conservatives-agree.html

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Obamacare's failure to collapse doesn't mean success. "It’s true: Obamacare isn’t collapsing. But in the real world, we don’t measure the success of the 'Affordable Care Act' by its failure to collapse. We measure it by looking at the underlying affordability of American health care....The story is more complicated than either side would like you to believe. It is a good thing that premiums on Obamacare’s exchanges aren’t rising rapidly for 2015. But premiums did go up a lot in 2014. And they may go up again, as the 'three R' program phases out. The bottom line is that if you shop for coverage on your own, and you don’t qualify for Obamacare’s subsidies, you’re probably paying a lot more for insurance today than you did before. And that’s why Obamacare remains unpopular." Avik Roy inForbes.

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"Nearly Three Quarters Of Americans With Individudal Plans Qualify For Obamacare Subsidies"

11/21/12013

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/21/2979101/americans-obamacare-subsidies/

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