It may be the administration’s signature piece of legislation and the foundation upon which its legacy will be built, but there are plenty of people who are not happy with the Affordable Cave Act. For instance, there are the members of the faculty of Harvard University who, as Robert Pear of the New York Times reports:
… voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.
Then, there are the:
Thirty-six states that rely on private managed care programs to provide medical services to all or some of their Medicaid recipients [that] are facing an added ObamaCare tax.
As Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute reports:
… states that contract with Medicaid managed care plans face up to $15 billion in added costs over 10 years for their share of the law’s tax on private health insurance.
And:
States will pay even if they strongly oppose ObamaCare and are refusing to establish health insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid.
And, then, there are those who are insured but with:
Coverage long considered the gold standard of health insurance [that] now often requires workers to pay so much out-of-pocket that many feel they must skip doctor visits, put off medical procedures, avoid filling prescriptions and ration pills — much as the uninsured have done.
The increase in deductibles coming as Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell of USA Today report that while:
Many patients and doctors blame corporate greed — a view insurers and business leaders reject. Some employers in turn blame the Affordable Care Act, saying it has forced them to pare down generous plans so they don’t have to pay a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost coverage in 2018.
