Sorry, nope, New York Rag, the sticker shock is coming from middle-class Americans, many of whom voted for Obummer, after being told that Obama only wanted to stick it to the rich, and that the ACA would mean a $2500 decrease in typical family health care premiums in a year. That is not panning out. Then they were repeatedly assured over a period of years that “if they liked their plan, they could keep their plan.” They see that they were the victims of a political lie used to sell this program and then to get Obama re-elected.
For Edie Sundby, the woman whose insurance provider and doctors have seen her through 7 years of cancer treatment and follow-up, her plan was not a “crap” plan as Obama and the Democrats like to cast all of the cancelled private insurance plans.
And I would hazard that the four Sunday morning news shows in the linked article (love how Chait says “not a single” when the reality is that it was four network shows) avoided the subject of the food stamp cuts because it would bring up the point the the original increase was supposed to be **temporary** which by definition means that it will be cut at some time in the future (and if the Obama economy is as great as Obama, the Dems, and the media keep telling us, we should be able to cut back by now because unemployment has improved so much, right??), and that the Democrats raided money from the food stamp program to fund Michelle Obama’s pet project, Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, you know, the one that resulted in kids dumping all their now-healthy school lunches into the trash. BTW, I watched Melissa Harris-Perry discussing the food stamp cuts in a segment on her Sunday show; funny, but she didn’t mention any of those other pesky facts.
There's a saying you can't con an honest man, and I believe it's true.
They were, at best, willing victims.