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And the problem for Obama and, well, flippyshark (among so many others) is that most people have health insurance and ... whether it's because they've had no devastating illness or because their medical coverage experience has been genuinely good ... most people are perfectly content with their current insurance situation.
That doesn't bode well for a population being asked to change course, and feeling (quite understandably) they're being lied to when "assured" there will be no change to their situation while simultaneously insuring millions of new people and slashing costs.
Perhaps if Obama and his cadre would simply come clean and tell the American people that, yes, sacrifice will be needed to fix the system that he claims (with some justification) will bankrupt our nation. But he's not doing that. It comes off as dishonest. That breeds fear.
I suppose another way to handle it would be to, oh, slash the defense budget by, ya know, not waging war in Afghanistan ... but I won't hold my breath on that one either.
All in all, Obama's seeming disingenuous. And most people are happy with their current situation. It's a bad recipe for change.
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