With the final of many deadlines to sign up for health insurance passed, the Obama administration has reached its targeted number of new enrollees. There are now, according to President Barack Obama, 7.1 million Americans who have secured health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This has been an intensely divisive process, however, and not helped by technical difficulties that gave legitimate fodder to criticize the law’s roll-out. So now we get down to the business of seeing how the law’s implementation will actually work: for individuals, business owners, health care providers, and state and federal coffers. The polarization that Obamacare engenders will surely remain. Let’s talk here about whether the Affordable Care Act has been a good, bad or inconsequential change for you. Explain, please. Here are a few links to inform your thinking (or not).

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/politics/obamacare-signups-target/

http://foxnewsinsider.com/tag/obamacare

http://www.msnbc.com/topics/affordable-care-act

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/03/young-healthy-and-not-so-important-for-obamacare.html

http://www.cbo.gov/latest/Health-Care/Affordable-Care-Act