Pay No Attention To the Folks Who Are Benefitting From Obamacare

Hilarious:

It seems Scott Brown, the once (and future?) U.S. senator, didn't have an answer when confronted with one of his fellow Republicans who has benefitted from Obamacare. The Huffington Post flagged the Wednesday story from the Coos County Democrat. Brown had met with Herb Richardson, a New Hampshire Republican state legislator, as Brown is exploring a run for the state's U.S. Senate seat.

During the meeting at Richardson's home, Brown called Obamacare a "monstrosity." But Richardson and his wife quickly interjected, according to the Democrat, saying that the law had been "a financial lifesaver."

An injury had forced Richardson to live on workers compensation, which became so costly that he and his wife had to move out of their house. To make matters worse, they had to pay $1,100 a month to keep their health insurance. But thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the couple now pays $136 a month for a plan that covers both of them.  Former Senator Brown, however, reportedly changed the subject after the Richardsons made their comments praising the ACA.

I have a feeling we're going to hear a lot of these stories over the next few months.  My question, however, is why aren't the Democrats capitalizing on this?  The Republicans keep running attack ads featuring Obamacare "horror stories," all of which have been easily debunked. But for every fake ACA horror story, there must be hundreds of thousands of Obamacare successes similar to the Richardsons' experience.

Perhaps the Democrats feel that they can get more bang for the buck if they wait a couple more months before running their own ads featuring Obamacare successes.  In any event, I sure hope the Dems decide at some point to go on the offensive with regard to the ACA, particularly given that the GOP has apparently decided to make Obamacare the only issue in the 2014 campaign season.