OK So we bitch and whine about the Koch Brothers adds and we bitch and whine, bitch and whine. In the meantime polls are starting to turn and stories like these go ignored
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Last summer Ellen Holzman and Meredith Vezina, a married gay couple in San Diego County, got kicked off their long-term Kaiser health plan, for which they'd been paying more than $1,300 a month. The cause wasn't the Affordable Care Act, as far as they knew. They'd been living outside Kaiser's service area, and the health plan had decided to tighten its rules.
That's when they discovered the chilly hazards of dependence on the individual health insurance market. When they applied for a replacement policy with Anthem Blue Cross of California, Ellen, 59, disclosed that she might have carpal tunnel syndrome. She wasn't sure--her condition was still being diagnosed by Kaiser when her coverage ended. But the possibility was enough to scare Anthem. "They said, 'We will not insure you because you have a pre-existing condition,'" Holzman recalls.
But they were lucky, thanks to Obamacare. Through Covered California, the state's individual insurance marketplace, they've found a plan through Sharp Healthcare that will cover them both for a total premium of $142 a month, after a government subsidy based on their income. They'll have a higher deductible than Kaiser's but lower co-pays. But their possible savings will be impressive.
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Look, I have an MPH and and MS (not bragging) Winning an election is not winning an academic debate. If the Koch Brothers put out a false negative add that changes the minds of a few undecided, all the dissertation and counter claims amount to nothing . You lost those votes and you are not getting them back Until we present regular folks , regular folks can relate to, the other side wins. We can only hope the ACA wins a lot of folks over by its merits and people decide to turn all the adds off . In the meantime kiss Arkansas and a few other states off (and maybe the Senate as well) We know if Hillary gets the nomination, she will clean the clock and take back a few seats but really, we can win or at least tie in 2014. A tie counts as a win in our case.