The whole country is not on Tricare. As others have pointed out to you numerous times, the discussions on this site have addressed what the average person who is not on Tricare is facing under this legislation They are addressing that issue since that is what they or their family are dealing with. Something you choose to ignore. And you evidently cannot point to even one successful fix in ACA (not Tricare). This is what people not on Tricare are facing:

The plans carry average premiums by metal level of $759.14, $910.86, $1,019.28, and $1,103.20 for bronze, silver, gold and platinum respectively. Average deductibles are $10,571, $7,209, $3,633, and $1,040 and average out-of-pocket maximum amounts are $12,600, $12,026, $10,115, and $4,467. Total out-of-pocket annual costs for people who rely on the plans - the sick people the ACA was meant to help - are $21,710, $22,956, $22,346, and $17,705 (if you're sick, buy platinum, assuming that you can afford anything).

If you can afford the "best" (i.e. Gold plan) plan, people who require regular treatment are on the hook for $17,705 for the first year of coverage and god knows how much more each and every year thereafter. After this great and glorious legislation, people here in the U.S. are still paying 2 to 3 times more for health care than in other countries and 35% - 50% more for drugs. Somehow they found a way to leave out the AFFORDABLE part in ACA.

Now let's address what the military is saying about Tricare and ACA which was the basis of my previous comment.

Tricare beneficiaries should see little impact from implementation of the Affordable Care Act because the military health care system was excluded from the law and Congress later passed legislation defining Tricare as meeting the act's insurance coverage requirements.

Per information from military sources, the one change that was made by additional legislation was to provide for TYA allowing children from 21 to age 26 to receive coverage under Tricare. Premiums for this coverage appear to be in the range of $180 - $200 per month.

One benefit addressed by the PPACA, but not already existing under TRICARE, was coverage of young adults up to age 26. Consequently, the National Defense Authorization Act signed into law in January 2011, led to the speedy implementation of TRICARE Young Adult (TYA.) TYA gives eligible uniformed services dependents under 26 who are unmarried, and not eligible for their own employer-sponsored health care coverage the option to purchase TYA.

It doesn't matter how often people tell you this, you don't believe it.  

Here's why an enrollment extension could be bad for Democrats in the midterm elections. Insurers insist that an extension would skew their risk pools toward older, sicker people and force them to hike premiums for 2015 to make up for it -- and outside experts back them up on the actuarial risks. If that happened, the increased premium rates would likely be released some time in September -- October at the latest -- according to the guidance that the Obama administration has given to insurers. link

And if the squeaky wheels didn't keep squeaking, I'm not sure there would be such urgency to correct the problem.

In Washington State (where you are probably also an expert on the health care plans), about 8,000 people who registered for the exchange were erroneously given the wrong information on their upcoming tax credit...to an average of $100 per person. And not $100 in their favor. They will have to pay more for their groovy plans than they were first told when they signed up.

Ultimately, the providers probably get less money, clearly the subscriber has less because he or she is giving so much of it to the insurance company as well as to the providers in the form of co-pays and co-insurance (and soon to come: balance billing!), so guess who gets most of it?  Yeah, funny how this works.

CHICAGO -- Whether she runs for president or not in 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton is making sure she stays connected to important Democratic constituencies, from college students and black women to the gay and lesbian community.

Clinton has spoken to a women's institute in Pennsylvania, a prominent black women's sorority in the nation's capital, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and an organization called Chicago House that helps people with HIV and AIDS.

Her fall itinerary includes speeches before college students at three universities in New York, which she represented in the Senate, an award from the Elton John AIDS Foundation, a speech at a Minneapolis synagogue and an event involving a Mexican-American initiative at the University of Southern California.

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Clinton's advisers note that she has avoided the circuit of Democratic dinners and events in early voting states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and focused on issues about which she long has been passionate - the status of women and girls around the globe, early childhood education and the trafficking of wildlife in Africa.

She is expected to limit her in-person political activity this year to fundraisers and events for Terry McAuliffe, a friend who's running for Virginia governor.

And yes, she's playing politics - she's a politician. I don't fall in love with politicians, so this kind of stuff isn't a problem for me.  I want someone who is willing and able to do the job. Others may disagree.

Clinton's travels also help burnish her centrist credentials. During a June address at the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Mich., she talked about the characteristics of leadership and sat next to Richard and Helen DeVos, both longtime Republican financial donors and activists. Her private, paid speeches have put her before industry groups that represent financial interests, housing developers and the tourist industry.

Earlier this month, Clinton received the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The group's chairman, former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., credited Clinton's "lifelong career in public service." Famous friends and supporters, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and tennis star Billie Jean King, praised her in video testimonials.

Her childhood development initiative with the Clinton Foundation, called Too Small to Fail, features a leadership council that includes former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Cindy McCain, the wife of Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.

She's also writing a book.

Hillary Clinton is writing a book, due out next spring, about her time as the nation's top diplomat, and will discuss her work on health and economic issues related to women and children during this coming week's Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.

I don't know if you've looked at Jill Stein's positions on the issues, and perhaps you will scoff at the tilting-at-windmills impossibility of accomplishing even a quarter of what she's proposed, but I'd like a candidate who can deliver these kinds of messages, get us talking about the poor, about the fact that the economy isn't working for an awful lot of people, make the case for being a country that lives up to the ideals it says it believes in.

So, in terms of "readiness," you're right that Stein has no major legislative or governing experience, but the people she's surrounded herself with, the people whose knowledge and expertise she's called on are of the people, by the people and for the people in a way that could make a difference.

It's not that I don't "like" Clinton, or that I don't have a great deal of admiration and respect for her body of work; I just think she's as bought-and-paid for as anyone, and I'm done with that.

But she is now in a position where it is way too easy to make compromises and slowly corrupt one's ideals. Speaking for myself only, I want to see how she handles that over the long term.

So, she bears watching.

 It is also my opinion that a real dilemma is inherent in those who seek only the perfect in politics or the "pure" as they define it. That is, they create an everything-is-so-wrong or everything-is-getting worse than the good ole days atmosphere that doesn't allow for a real silver lining.  Today, we see the havoc manufactured by the purity-purge that seems to have hog-tied the Repubs ... the ideologues begin to exclude more & more and the tests for inclusion are harsher & harsher ... all leading to a kind of political absurdity.  That is my caution in my own party: Retain and grow the Big Tent. Purity and holier-than-thou admission tests tend to squeeze more than a boa constrictor.