The Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect. It wasn’t when Congress passed it in 2010 and it wasn’t when its health insurance exchanges opened for enrollment last week. Like most laws, Obamacare never will be perfect.
Yet despite its blemishes, the ambitious reform effort meant to make a dent in the nearly 50 million Americans who currently lack health insurance is the law of the land. The Supreme Court and the American people both affirmed it last year, developments Republicans are still trying to delete from the record more than a week into a government shutdown they caused in a last-ditch effort to kill Obamacare.
They say the law needs to die in part because President Barack Obama and his administration are going to use it to “destroy everything in America,” fulfilling some sort of sick, biblical End Times prophecy.
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