Blurryeiyed, you make an awful lot of baseless assertions without any evidence. I have yet to meet a single person who changed their support of the ACA after hearing Grubber's comments. I have not met a single person that believes that they were duped into supporting the ACA. You have not provided a shred of evidence that the bill's sponsors lied about the estimated cost of the program or its effect on the deficit. Your assertion that the ACA has benefited 10 million Americans at the most is patently absurd. 10 million poor people alone now have free health care who previously did not, and that number would be far higher if Republican controlled states would accept the medicaid expansion in their states. 85% of the 8
million Americans who purchased health insurance on the ACA exchanges received tax subsidies. So add about 7 million to the 10 million. We are up to 17 million now.

82 percent of Americans polled favored banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. So now all the Americans who have already benefited from this provision, and all those who are no longer at risk for being denied because of pre existing conditions have to be added to this figure. How many is this? 50 million? 100 million?

61% of Americans polled favored allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26. Take a guess how many millions of Americans benefited from this provision.

What about the provision that companies with more than 50 employees must provide health insurance for their employees? How many millions have benefited from this?

Add all these benefits up, and I stand by my previous statement that many tens of millions of Americans have benefited from the ACA so far.