"I'm not against Obamacare," Waschura said. "It's just the initial shock. I'm holding out hope that there will be a correction over a handful of years."
Oh...Waschura... sit tight and hold on, honey..there's a big fat "correction" heading our way.

Healthcare should be private.

Translation: "I thought they would, y'know, tax the rich for this."

My family's premiums were $380/mo. They're going to be going up to around $500. We were able to renew just before the new required "benefits" kick in.

The law now requires policies to have certain features, even if you don't want them, so it costs more. For example, they'll pay for one checkup per person now before we hit the deductible. We know that's coming and do not want to "insure" against it. In the end we break about even. Having to insure against things we'd rather self-insurance against is bad but won't really affect us much.

PPACA will do more good than harm by increasing labor mobility and providing subsidies to the poor. My non-expert opinion, though, is that this could have been accomplished much more simply. It feels like they had to convince the middle-class healthcare needs to be "a system" instead of a market to sell them on the idea of helping the poor and making insurance plans more portable-- not tied to jobs.

B/c the need for reform in the area of mobility was needed so badly, I don't see even the bad parts about PPACA being repealed. Most opponents won't admit it does something toward solving a real problem. I think it's here to stay, mostly in its current form.

The problem... these nimrods could put their fingers in their ears and act like children while people were telling them what to expect. Their problem now is that they can't stick their fingers in their eyeballs when viewing the bill...

Subsidies. Who's paying for them? If it's a tax credit then that's less going into the Treasury. Nothing is free moochers......

"It's just the initial shock. I'm holding out hope that there will be a correction over a handful of years."

Keep hoping for that change...