[MsDemeanor]

I don't feel that Obama's plan goes far enough or acts fast enough. Single payer is my preference. If we have to continue to feed the insurance cartel, there at least needs to be a Medicare For All buy-in option; this could easily be made available within the next year. And I fail to understand why so many of the policy changes aren't slated to take effect for months or years. Why is it so hard to say "starting May 1st, you cannot cancel or refuse someone for a pre-existing condition"? What about that requires months or years to enact? Oh, yeah, it's like credit card reform, where we had to give the banks lots of time to jack up rates, cancel folks, rewrite policies, and just all around fuck over as many people as possible.

As for the three million people who elect to pay the non-enforceable penalty instead of getting taxpayer-subsidized insurance? *shrug, whatever*