Affordable Care Act Update

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The irony of this is that Obamacare's successes are, in many cases, conservatism's successes. The individual mandate is a conservative idea — and it's working. Liberals were skeptical that private insurers would compete on price even absent a public option — but they are. High-deductible health plans are a longtime conservative solution for health costs — and Obamacare is spreading them far and wide. But conservatives can't take credit for any of this, much less build on it.

The right can’t admit that Obamacare is working - Vox

This could have been so much better.

Irony of irony's, there are people out there that were completely willing to close down the US government and even the world financial system to stop what is, in essence, a victory of their own principles. And it wasn't that hard to figure out, a successful working model already existed in Massachussetts..