While your question was addressed to another, hoping I can take a crack at this right off the top of my head.

Let me first say, the idea is a good one; one that both parties had kicked around for years. BUT...

1. The entire idea was, lest we forget, to reduce health costs; It has increased the costs with no end n sight.

2. Cost have not even all kicked in as of yet with all the extensions, and I consider this to be an albatross on the federal government. This should have been done by states as proposed a number of times.

Those two bother me.....everyone on both sides favored the covering of all....but we were told, clearly, that the idea was REDUCE HEALTH COSTS. they are continuing to increase.

I am happy that some who could not get insurance in the past now can, but the winners with this bill was the insurance industry. They have made and will continue to make billions on this

Now, it is too late to repeal to be honest...the cost will just get greater than it is going to be.

This needed to be done on a state by state basis with federal assistance, and maybe we might have blessed the overall costs as well as the individual health care costs.