Serious question: how many people are going to pay more for health insurance over the next few years because they are sure that Obamacare is bad and will therefore not even bother to look for better deals?
I ask this because I’m starting to see a lot more ACA success stories. As the dominant narrative switches to stuff like this, it seems like a lot more people will be exploring the exchanges.
I see a number of possible ways this could go. Of the people who dislike the law:
1. Some will discover a better deal, and change their mind – at least partially.
2. Many more will get a better deal and grudgingly admit it, but still think that the law is on balance bad.
3. Some will get a worse deal.
4. Some will attribute all bad stuff to Obamacare (even if it was inevitably going to happen), and attribute all good changes to external factors – assuming that they are happening in spite of the law rather than because of it.
5. Some (I think) will just assume that it’s impossible that they could get a better deal so won’t even bother looking. Or, even if they do look, will assume there is some hidden cost that makes it worse.
If category number 5 does exist, doesn’t it suggest that people are basically paying a premium to feel right? If so, I think that’s interesting! Alternatively, it could be understood as a form of solidarity: a baseline refusal to treat the law as just, which means it doesn’t even deserve your attention. Regardless, I’d like to see some reporting about how such people think about the law.
And, related question, is there a counter-example of a Republican law that liberals so intensely disliked that they failed to take advantage of it because doing so might endanger their ideological presumptions? Tax breaks of some kind?
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