Obamacare is good for the middleclass and the poor. Period!

[UCmeNdc]

How can the middle class and poor GOP voters not see that? What makes them like it not being able to afford health care or be one paycheck away from losing the healthcare they already have. Why does the average Kansas voter vote GOP even as their state crashes? What is going on?

[zipplewrath]

1. Because it's not?

Look, for anyone that benefitted from ACA, sure it's a help. But for anyone who already had insurance (the vast majority) or for the lower middle class that is forced into buying insurance that they cannot afford to use, it really isn't much of a "deal".

Just because they've been force to buy health INSURANCE doesn't mean they can now afford health CARE. The saddest group to which you allude however are those small, independent business owners that often are the staunchest members of the GOP who now have an actual chance to purchase health insurance at something approaching a reasonable rate.

The absolute funniest group though are all those state legislatures that are turning down literally BILLIONS of dollars in federal money coming into their states because they hate the ACA so badly. They'll bend over backwards to build a sports stadium for several hundred million so that some dubious amount of economic stimulus can be generated, but they won't let BILLIONS of dollars in money, to fund some of the high paying healthcare jobs that it generates.

The top two states in terms of cost of health insurance on the exchange are the two turning DOWN the most in Medicaid expansion money. Think there might be a correlation there?

[bigwillq]

3. Hello

Welcome to DU!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

4. Might as well wish him goodbye too!