personally, I believe the republicans are wrong to shut down the government over this issue, because people can vote out the president in a couple of years, the entire Congress in a few years, and if this legislation is as dire as everyone says it is then we'd be hard pressed not to hold our elected officials responsible and end their reign of stupid at the taxpayer's expense.
let's see how bad the new entitlement makes health care, and the costs associated with, then we can work with real numbers. I understand that the mainstream media will never use real numbers though, as they cherry pick their statistics to serve the sheeple, no shame in their deception at all.
but some of the fallout from the inclusion of the ACA will be tangible, and the population will get a chance to say if insuring 15 million people who couldn't afford it before, was worth a 25% increase across the board for everyone else's sniffles and wheezes.
I don't know about other people but raising the average cost of health care 40% and raising the average cost of health insurance 25% for anyone who makes more than minimum wage, seems like a big price to pay for just a few small improvements, the only thing I can see is because there's a 3 to 1 limit on costs rising by the industry, they had to just up the bar for everyone. Which is no limits at all, when you think about it.
One good thing to come out of this legislation is how much richer we're going to make insurance companies.
isn't that worth another 10% of your paycheck? Of course it is.