I think the law isn't well written, but it's a damn far better sight than what we had.
The fact that certain Republican Governors are penalizing poor people because they hate the Black Guy so much is just kind of sad.
The GOP governors are doing this to protect business from fines, at least until the issue is decided in court, poor people have nothing to do with it. The poor can enroll in Medicaid and they don't need a state run exchange to do that, in fact they could do that before the PPACA was the law so the PPACA didn't change anything in that regard.
I don't think the PPACA is a damn sight better than what we had. It is taking money out of the pockets of the very people we rely upon to keep our economy running by spending, now they can't. It doesn't do anything to address cost, in fact it raises costs. The mandate has no teeth right now and even in a few years when it allegedly will it's not realistic to expect that those fines can be collected. We've already seen employers adapting to the new reality and the news isn't good. What should have been done is a case for spreading risk for basic services across a pool of 330 million people being made with people free to buy any additional coverage they might want. Now we're locked into a system that won't work and people who were already adequately covered are being asked to pay even more. And why? To allegedly cover those who weren't covered even though those people could have been covered before the PPACA was enacted. This law is a disaster and we haven't even yet seen the annual rate increase requests from the insurance providers.