People are liking the Affordable Care Act! As people sign up, they are more and more pleased.

The first came from Jeffrey Zients — the Obama administration point person in charge of fixing Healthcare.gov — who told reporters on Friday that the site will be able to handle 50,000 users at a time and 800,000 users a day by the the end of next week. That’s double the current capacity, and right in time for an expected surge in demand just before the end of the year.
The second came from the pro-reform group Families USA, which examined options available to 15 million people who are currently covered on the individual market (many of whose policies have been canceled and will lapse by the end of the year) under the Affordable Care Act.
According to Families USA, over 70 percent of those currently insured will either qualify for premium tax credits on state-based insurance exchanges, or become newly eligible for Medicaid coverage under the healthcare law.


“Nationally, 71 percent of people in the individual market under age 65 have incomes at or below 400 percent of poverty,” according to Families USA. “Under the Affordable Care Act, these people are income-eligible for financial help to purchase an insurance plan, either through new premium tax credit subsidies or through expanded Medicaid.”
Together that combines all of the ingredients any marketplace needs to be successful:
1) An appealing product.
2) A large population of motivated shoppers.
3) Affordable prices, either by design or by discount.
4). A fast-moving checkout counter.



http://www.salon.com/2013/11/25/right_wing_extremists_face_new_moral_conundrum/

How to win the argument about the ACA at Thanksgiving Dinner

Here at HuffPost we believe in news you can use, so we've put together a guide we hope is just as useful to Hank as it is to Emily. Because what good is having a political opinion if you can't prove it's the right one in front of your extended family on Thanksgiving?
Whether you're Hank or Emily, here are some handy Obamacare talking points that will drive home your argument.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/obamacare-facts_n_4303837.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

The Biggest Problem with the ACA Rollout is being caused intentionally by Republicans

The media have been buzzing with stories — many of them wildly exaggerated — of people facing higher premiums as a result of Obamacare. But there’s a story about rates you may not have heard: According to Jonathan Gruber, a leading health care wonk at MIT, all private insurance premiums in the 25 red states that are refusing to expand their Medicaid programs will be 15 percent higher as a direct result of that decision.

But those numbers don’t capture the human cost. The reality is that conservatives are complaining about insurance policies being cancelled and the ACA’s error-plagued exchanges at the same time as they actively work to keep millions of poor Americans from gaining coverage under the law’s Medicaid expansion.

The victims of Obamacare’s implementation problems being hit the hardest, by far, are those whose incomes fall between the federal poverty line and the eligibility cutoffs in those 25 states rejecting Medicaid expansion. Not only will they be left uncovered, they won’t even be eligible for the generous subsidies that people earning slightly more than they do can use to buy insurance. It’s brutally unfair. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 4.8 million poor adults may fall into that coverage gap — about twice the number of people expected to pay more for their insurance when their substandard policies are cancelled.

http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/21/the-biggest-problem-with-obamacares-rollout-is-being-caused-intentionally-by-republicans/

Majority oppose Affordable Care Act Repeal AKA: Obamacare

Despite sharp divisions over the long-term impact of President Obama's health-reform law, fewer than two in five Americans say it should be repealed, virtually unchanged since last summer, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has found.

Why are the majority of Americans still against the GOP call to repeal Obamacare? Despite the MSM's best efforts at obfuscating, by now the benefits should be clear. The Affordable Care Act will help millions of Americans who've been locked out of the insurance market. We can’t go back on a law that stops insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, that prevents the bankruptcy of cancer survivors by ending lifetime caps on coverage, and that no longer forces women to pay double for the same care men get.

http://crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/poll-majority-oppose-obamacare-repeal

5 Myths about the Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare AND WHY THEY ARE WRONG!

The Affordable Care Act will inconvenience a few while helping millions who need insurance at a reasonable cost.  It is interesting that Insurance Company profits have shot from 2.5. Billion to 12 Billion in the last 15 years.

http://youngprogressivevoices.com/2013/11/07/five-myths-about-obamacare-the-gop-wants-you-to-believe-and-why-they-are-wrong/

Obamacare is successful in Kentucky - check it out McConnel and Rand Paul

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz did what all journalists should be doing: He is reporting on Obamacare comprehensively. Specifically he is putting the rollout of exchanges in the proper context. This is what they should all be doing.
Schultz did not stay cooped up in Washington, D.C. or New York. He went directly to the source. He visited with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear in Kentucky. The Kentucky exchange is up and running successfully. Kentucky is one of 15 states that set up their own.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253260/-Ed-Schultz-Washington-Obstruction-vs-Obamacare-Kentucky-Success-VIDEO?detail=facebook

Don't Blame the ACA for cancelled insurance - THE INSURANCE COMPANIES Business Decision

The fact is if you are one of the estimated 2 million Americans whose health insurance plans may have been cancelled this month, you should not be blaming President Obama or the Affordable Care Act.
You should be blaming your insurance company because they have not been providing you with coverage that meets the minimum basic standards for health care.
Let me put it more bluntly: your insurance companies have been taking advantage of you and the Affordable Care Act puts in place consumer protection and tells them to stop abusing people.

One of the most popular and important provisions of the Affordable Care Act is setting basic minimum standards of medical insurance coverage. Here are some of those standards:
- Your insurance company is no longer allowed to cancel your policy if you get sick
- Your insurance company cannot deny you coverage or charge you more if you have a pre-existing health condition
- Your insurance company must allow you to keep your children on your plan until they turn 26 years old or get a job that provides health insurance.
- Your insurance company cannot impose lifetime caps on you health coverage.



http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/05/insurance-cancelled-dont-blame-obama-or-aca-blame-america-insurance-companies/

Diabetes Patient sees Premium Plummet from $500 to $2 per month

The lady said call the phone number and be patient because it is worth it.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/type-2-diabetes-patient-sees-premiums

Stewart: The lies about Obamacare

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart took another shot at President Obama for his statement that you could keep your health care plan if you liked your health care plan and you can keep your doctor, period, once the Affordable Care Act became law, and the recent caveats placed on that statement.
But his real ire was reserved for the opponents of the law, who have been lying about its effects. After showing a series of clips from Fox "news" where they're just outright lying and fearmongering about the law, Stewart let them have it.


http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jon-stewart-blasts-obamacare-opponents

GW Bush: Medicare Part D: Roll out of this BIG PROGRAM WAS A DISASTER. (Not a big deal back then - we'll improve it)

It is amazing how the color of the President's Skin or being from a different party makes such a HUGE Difference in how a Major Program to benefit people is rolled out and discussed. Both started rocky.


There were no congressional hearings, and no nasty comments from Democrats when President Bush’s Medicare Part D rollout was just as bad as the rollout of Obamacare.
A few weeks into the launch of the most sweeping health care reform law in a generation, John Boehner declared that the implementation was a disaster.


“The implementation,” the Republican leader said, “has been horrendous. We’ve made it far more complicated than it should be.”
…But did he want to repeal the benefit? No. The future Speaker soberly acknowledged the problems but saw potential in the law and called for improving it. “The good news is that the competition that’s being created has lowered premiums significantly below where Congress thought they’d be when we put the bill together, so the competition side is good,” he said. “I think the implementation side continues to need to be improved.”



http://www.alan.com/2013/10/30/republican-party-reponse-to-disastrous-rollout-of-mecicare-part-d-very-different/

Obamacare is ruining my life STORIES: IS THAT REALLY TRUE? Probably not.

After CBS News ran a deceptive segment highlighting a Florida woman's increased health care costs, Fox News reportedly contacted the woman to appear on three of its shows. CBS has run several misleading segments on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since the implementation of the law's exchanges.
On CBS' This Morning, political correspondent Jan Crawford highlighted the story of Dianne Barette, a Florida woman who received notice that her plan did not meet the ACA's minimum coverage requirements. In the segment, Crawford said Barette "pays $54 a month. The new plan she's being offered would run $591 a month, ten times more than what she currently pays." According to the Washington Post's media blogger Erik Wemple, after the CBS story aired, Barette was contacted by three Fox News shows, Fox & Friends, Your World with Neil Cavuto, and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.
Wemple, who also interviewed Barrette, pointed out a detail the CBS report failed to mention: in addition to being inadequate, the coverage Barrette currently receives doesn't cover hospitalizations, something that "could well have bankrupted Barrette under her current insurance." From Wemple's article:


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/28/fox-finds-new-anti-health-care-star-in-cbss-mis/196635

16 myths about the Affordable Care Act

PolitiFact has been fact-checking claims about the federal health care law since lawmakers started drafting the legislation in 2009. Long controversial, the law has been no stranger to attacks by detractors. Here are 16 of the biggest falsehoods PolitiFact has rated.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/sep/24/top-16-myths-about-health-care-law/