When a cartoon cuts this close - laughing is all but impossible

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7. Tick...Tock....Tick...Tock... 2014 approaches.

Unless it gets delayed, THAT is when The Mandate kicks in,
and The Exchanges open for business.

How will it go?

*Will 40 Million - 70 Million uninsured Americans (projected # of uninsured Americans by 2014) embrace their Mandatory "Bronze" Health Insurance bought from "private" Corporations without complaint?

*How many $DOLLARS$ will those Americans have to cough up out of their empty pockets to pay their part of the subsidy,
it they qualify for one?

*How difficult will it be to convert their "Bronze" Insurance into actual Health Care?

*How many will complain that the IRS was a bad choice for The Hammer if they choose not to pay?

*Was Leaving this Up-to-the-States,
50 different Exchanges, 50 different rates, 50 different sets of rules, and 50 different levels of oversight such a good idea?

Believe me when I tell you that the vast majority of The Uninsured have absolutely NO idea what will be required of them in 2014.


How smoothly The MANDATE goes into effect may determine the future of the Democratic Party for many years.
We live in interesting times.