Is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) right that people will be addicted to the sugar of ObamaCare subsidies? Will people reward Democrats for giving them access to affordable health care insurance? That’s really the key question to understanding how the midterm elections will go. Many Americans are barely impacted by the Affordable Care Act at all because they already had health insurance through their employer, so the Republicans can hope to turn those folks against the law by arguing that it resulted in an increase in their premiums. It doesn’t matter whether the allegation is true as long as a lot of people believe that it is true.
That’s all the more reason that Democrats need the beneficiaries of ObamaCare to show up and vote for them. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) seems to understand this, which is a good thing.
