Obama Care Endgame: Are 7 Million QHP Enrollments by 3/31 Still Possible? Yes, but...

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6. Seven million matter less politically than one.

In the next few months nearly everyone is going to have a story in their life of someone they care about who has been saved by the ACA—medically, financially, or both. It's all over for the Republicans. We just need to refer to the experiences everyone will have had by election time. Most people don't care if seven million people they don't know are in the program. That number won't outweigh the intense and filthy Republican lying campaign we are going to face.

The Republicans will say "but...but...$700 million from Medicare...and...and...2.5 million jobs lost...and...and...magic beans grow into beanstalks...and...and...Paul Ryan ran a two-fifty-something marathon..." And we'll say to the voters, "One or more of your relatives or you, yourself, have been spared being denied insurance. One of them has been spared losing all of their assets or their life. One of them has gotten health care for the first time in years. And the Republicans lied to you about the whole damned thing and tried to shut down the government over it."