I hear people grousing about the cost and abuses attributed to the so-called Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act has not even really begun, and old grievances due to the cut backs due to the recession are blamed on it.

Let us see exactly how it comes out after it is in force for a year or so.

The employer part has been delayed for a year, and 28 states are going to annul part of its efficacy.

Meant for all to participate, healthy or not, everyone would have access to preventive medical care. Pricing would be on a sliding scale, and the hospitals would be the ones taking the primary shortfall.

Later, after the bugs are worked out of the system, everyone would benefit by universal coverage.

Regretfully, 28 states, the ones who need it the most, are opting out.

The leaders of those states should be ashamed, keeping affordable health care from their citizens, the ones who could least afford it is criminal.

Allow the bugs to be identified and rectified, give it a chance before excoriating it.

Dave Gebhard lives in Lakeport, Calif.