Three and a half years after it was signed, sealed and delivered, the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act remains the undead; not interred, not thriving,
but fought over on numerous fronts. This
enrages the left, which calls the case settled, and says it has facts on its
side: The act was passed legally by both houses of Congress, survived the
Supreme Court and five center-right justices, and survived 2012 and the
presidential election, in which voters endorsed it.
Like other big laws — Social Security, Medicare and Medicare Part D — it
had initial delays, but will soon be accepted. No entitlement has ever been
scaled back or repealed once it got started, as this one soon will.
They say it, they swear it, they may even believe it. But none of these
things rings quite true. Social
Security, Medicare and Medicare Part D were passed by large and bipartisan
majorities, were never opposed for four years by consistent majorities, were
nowhere nearly as complex or disruptive, or did so many people such harm......ToRead More....
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