WASHINGTON — It survived a historic Supreme Court fight and a bruising presidential election. Next up for President Obama’s groundbreaking law to expand health insurance coverage: winning over a skeptical and, in much of the country, downright hostile public.
Health care advocates say lessons — and inspiration — can be drawn from the Massachusetts experience, where a multipronged publicity blitz helped the state achieve near-universal coverage more quickly than lawmakers anticipated when they passed the 2006 law.
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Enrollment is the easy part. The challenge is to contain the souring costs that the reform began, and to stop the reduction in supply of health care access brought on by price controls.
Not a reduction in supply, but an increase in demand (instead of all those working people who just couldn't afford health care either living with illness and dying early.)
The big difference in the two situations is that, #1. Governor Mitt Romney was at the helm of the new healthcare plan in Massachusetts. We have the 'Divider' still bumbling along in DC.
Right wing haters blame Obama for the fact that they don't like him. I've never understood why they don't like him, but it's beyond conceivable that he's responsible for your hatred.