Obama's Health Care Law Already Working

    Despite all the hubbub and the lawsuits, and the fact that the total Affordable HealthCare Act (ACA) doesn't go into effect unitl 2014 there are at least 2.5 million young Americans now covered by health care insurance thanks to ACA.

    http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/14/389000/new-data-obamacare-extends-health-coverage-to-25-million-young-adults/

   "By the second calendar quarter of 2011, the proportion of uninsured young adults had dropped to a little over 27 percent, or about 8 million people. The difference — nearly 2.5 million getting coverage — can only be the result of the health care law, administration officials said, because the number covered by public programs like Medicaid went down slightly. Overall, nearly 30 million Americans are between the ages of 19 to 25. For those who are little older, ages 26-35, the uninsured rate went up during the same period. “From September 2010 to June 2011, coverage rose only among those adults affect by the policy,” said the HHS report."

    There has been an awful lot of demagogy of ACA and anti Obama liberals have only further muddied the waters with their own attacks that often sound the same themes of the conservatives who are in principle opposed to universal health care. If you want the public option give it time-this is what eventually happened with Medicare. For sure the five year wait seems like a long time but it is how long Social Security took as well.

   Indeed what should be considered is that everything that has been thrown out at ACA was thrown at SS when FDR first got it passed from the Supreme Court lawsuits to those leftists who feel it's not good enough-recall the Townsend Plan and Huey's Share the Wealth.

  As far as ACA is concerned while there is an awful lot of misinformation about it-starting with pure urban legends like "death panels" -but the one thing that even Newt Gingrich won't attack is this provision that allows young people to stay on their parents plan till their 26:

  "The GOP’s 2009 alternative health care plan would have allowed young adults to stay on their parents’ plan until age 25 and current presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich has claimed, “That particular piece there is nothing wrong with. I didn’t say there is anything wrong with that.” More conservative members like Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Jack Kingston (R-GA) have vocally opposed the provision, however, arguing that it undermines young people’s independence."

   While Gingrich has the chutzpah to run against his own individual mandate-Romney is called on this but not Newt whose idea it was in 1993-he doesn't have the chutzpah to run against that.