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I thin he has a good point about choice - we shouldn’t have a “one size fits all” health insurance because individuals and families are unique, right? I don’t think there is a conservative who would be unhappy with Obamacare if the marketplace actually worked!

The problem is that it doesn’t deliver on that promise. For poor people facing private health insurace sticker shock, the only real option is Medicaid. For the middle class many of them can’t be on Medicaid unless they spend down their assets and then private health insurance would become a rich man’s game in this country.

And where does that put us? On the path to single payer health care! When the only choice is government-run health care, when affordably priced private health insurance might as well not exist, that’s exactly the intent of Obamacare! Michael Tomasky can try to pretend there are loads of choices on the website he looked at and if I was a socialist, my objection is going to be that Obamacare worsens rather than fixes the problem of health care affordability and accessibility. And the Left never thinks the market is a good thing.

When your entire solution is built around a lie and people know the goal of Obamacare isn’t to give them the tools to make the best decisions for themselves and their families - that is a turn-off. Its more than about problems with a website. And if private health insurance is still unaffordable, then we should go single payer. But let’s not pretend the government is doing such a bang up job that in year’s time, the Democrats will be the political beneficiaries of Obamacare.

There is still a lot that can go wrong and we have yet to see a real marketplace for American health care set up and running before next November. Tomasky’s optimism is a tad premature because the jury is still out on if - or when that will happen at all. In the meantime, Obamacare is still a political albatross upon the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party that voted for it.