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Proud Liberal Dem

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2. ACA
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 12:52 PM
Mar 2017

was brilliantly constructed to be difficult to undo without a lot of people suffering due to loss of coverage (not to mention that it's been in place for 6+ years), which is currently what's got the Republicans tied up in Gordian knots. At some point, the Republicans are either going to have to repeal/replace it and deal with the resulting fallout or learn to live with ACA being the established law of the land and new status quo for health care in this country (and maybe eventually work with Democrats to make it even better). Even though Republicans ran and won on repealing/replacing it and even though it cost President Obama and the Democratic Party dearly in a political sense, and even though it went through Supreme Court "meat grinder" twice and been subject to all forms of Republican sabotage efforts, ACA has proven to be remarkably resilient.

The GOP owes their butts to Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #1
ACA Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #2
i wouldn't say it was constructed to be difficult to undo unblock Mar 2017 #3
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