It's not about Obama. It's about what people want and a law that is staying a law and getting improvements or fixes. All they are doing is scaring people away from ACA. That's not going to work for cost saving shoppers.

A few comments I picked up from Twitter and from cost saving stories for ACA

https://www.facebook.com/Haronianinsurance/posts/10152047967062288

http://queenofspainblog.com/2013/11/13/we-just-enrolled-in-obamacare/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/i-am-obamacare-_n_4046470.html

http://www.lohud.com/article/20131112/NEWS02/311120064/Affordable-Care-Act-%20%20profile-Self-employed-couple-find-400-savings?odyssey=mod|

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamacare-saved-my-family-from-financial-ruin/2013/10/08/2b4c03c6-2f6e-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

Doris Gelbman ?@dwgelbman 25m @elspethrb @TheAtlanticWire by contrast, Obamacare will save many lives. has saved me $700/mo. SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. A. MONTH.
https://twitter.com/j_five00/status/401415832284037120/photo/1

Jack Strack ?@JackStrack 15m @ezraklein Reality vs notational: Purchased a new policy at http://Healthcare.gov yesterday and saved 93% of January 2013 costs.

Joshua Best ?@joshbest 14 Nov @kmbc not in our house. We just saved nearly $600/month on health insurance premiums. Why not tell the good with the bad? #healthreform #ACA

Chief JayRamesses II ?@JaycenBradley 13 Nov You cant change my opinion the #ACA because its already saved my life so keep your negative theory to
yourself

marahall pickett ?@MarahallP 9 Nov I just saved $65 a month on my health insurance!!! Same exact plan that I have now just cheaper under
#AffordableCareAct awesome.

Paul Stewart ?@PaulStewartII 11 Nov Amy Robach "The doctors told me
bluntly: 'That mammogram just saved your life"
http://bit.ly/1bl03sQ #Cancer #Mammogram #ObamaCare #ACA

Rep. Barbara Lee ?@RepBarbaraLee 18 Jul What else has #AffordableCareAct done? In #CA13: 235,000 people have saved $ on premiums: 38,000 have gotten rebates! http://1.usa.gov/13OYN3R
https://twitter.com/RepGaramendi/status/383653640310771712/photo/1

Health care law saves consumers $1.2 billion nationwide
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/09/20130912a.html

HHS: 6.6 million people with Medicare have saved over $7 billion on prescription drugs as a result of the Affordable Care Act

NEW Analysis: Consumers buying own health insurance saved $2.1 billion in 2012 due to #ACA’s MLR provision
http://kff.org/health-reform/perspective/beyond-rebates-how-much-are-consumers-saving-from-the-acas-medical-loss-ratio-provision/?utm_source=nd&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=060613

The Human Face of Obamacare: she saved >$23,000 in the past 18 months on her health care savings.
http://www.shesugar.com/type-1-diabetes/human-face-obamacare-patient-nurse-affordable-care-ac/

donco

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5. people are saying that this is defeat for the ACA.

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:25 PM

Nov 2013

Not so; here’s why. My take on it is that it’s a back door public option. Think about it.

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