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Here's What 240 Million Americans Will Have To Start Doing [This] Week, Thanks To Obamacare (Original Post) LiberalElite Oct 2013 OP
Your headline didn't sell me your link. postulater Oct 2013 #1
Main reason to look at it was the dog LiberalElite Oct 2013 #2

postulater

(5,075 posts)
1. Your headline didn't sell me your link.
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 08:06 AM
Oct 2013

Especially from huffpost.

A little synopsis might help me decide if I want to go there or not.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
2. Main reason to look at it was the dog
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 08:04 PM
Oct 2013

On Oct. 1, the long-feared national nightmare finally arrives.

Obamacare, the massive health care reform law passed in 2010, will make its latest mark with the launch of its health insurance exchanges. When they officially open for business, 240 million Americans will have to start doing this:

[cute video of a sunglass-wearing St. Bernard in hammock]

If you're like 80 percent of Americans, you can chill out, just like this dog on a hammock.

The health insurance exchanges that are rolling out next week are designed to make it easier for people without insurance, or who buy insurance on their own, to get coverage. But if you are one of the roughly 240 million Americans that already have insurance through an employer, or are enrolled in a government program like Medicare, you can stay on that plan.

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