My column from yesterday urged the Democrats and the White House to seriously educate the public about the benefits of the healthcare reform law. Or it'll all go away.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the disconnect among senior citizens regarding the healthcare law and who they're intending to support in the election. Once again, seniors are benefiting from the Affordable Care Act more than any other demographic group (around 14 million of them alone have received new preventative care coverage), yet they don't like the ACA and intend to vote for Romney over President Obama. A Romney victory would mean the repeal of the ACA and, along with it, the re-opening of the Medicare Part-D donut hole, forcing seniors to once again pay out of pocket for prescription medicine several months out of the year. It would mean the end of preventative care coverage and an array of other benefits that would deeply impact the health and financial stability of seniors.
And this is evidently what they want.
Or do they?
It turns out that most Americans don't even know what's in the law. And as we've all observed too often, Americans notoriously fear what they don't understand. For example, evolution and African American presidents from Hawaii. Continued here...