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ACA less popular with whom? The website problems only affect those who want to sign up. Notwithstanding the sign up problems, people who now qualify are still better off since they will eventually be able to sign up.
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Well potentially less popular with a 29 year healthy waitress that wasn’t expecting to see a brand new out of pocket expense of $100/month for a health care service they haven’t had to use. Affordable is somewhat subjective. Because it’s often is comparison to something else. Say you never shopped for health insurance or don’t think you need it. You might get sticker shock when you see it costs 100 or 200 or whatever amount of money per month depending on your circumstances. What if you where lead to believe it would be free or very cheap? What do you say when if isn’t anywhere close to your expectations?
Obviously one of the admitted issues is that in order to make health insurance affordable for those with pre-existing conditions you have to get a bunch of healthy people that will in effect be subsidizing them. The net benefit for one particular class of people is a net loss for another group of people. How cheap could young healthy people get coverage if they were only included in the risk pool of other young healthy people.
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So why don’t Republicans run on the reforms they want and let voters decide the next election cycle?
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The tea party republicans did that in 2010 and won on a platform of fiscal conservatism. They seem to be the primary reason the shutdown continues. Attempting to honor that pledge to the people that elected them. Granted they are a minority, but a lot of people think the government should reduce it’s deficit and eventually start paying down the debt. Of course one you start talking about lines items to cut or taxes to increase nobody likes what it would take to actually balance a budget.
