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« If Wes Anderson Made a Horror Movie | Main | Streusel-Topped Pumpkin Muffins » Many will do nothingTPM: A 56-year-old Seattle resident with a 57-year-old husband and 15-year-old daughter, Donna had been looking forward to the savings that the Affordable Care Act had to offer. It's nice that this lady was able to get on the exchange and find a better deal and that she qualified for subsidies. But many people won't know to do this or how to do it, or will try and fail (even after the technical website problems are fixed). It's complicated. People are busy. Not everyone knows how to navigate websites. Some people aren't sophisticated or technically savvy. Some are mentally impaired. TPM frames this story as "insurance companies are cheating people" and they've also been pushing the "media stories are misleading" angle. And that's all true. But the real problem is that the system is overly complicated. We shouldn't be relying on individual 57 years olds (or 20 year olds) to figure out if they are picking the right stuff. This is why we should have just expanded Medicare or at a minimum had a Public Option ("figure it out for me; i'll have what everyone else is having"). By fnord12 | November 4, 2013, 1:02 PM | Liberal Outrage |