Democrats Resort to Magical Thinking on Obamacare
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April 3 (Bloomberg) -- In the span of one week, Democratswent from dismissing the possibility that the Supreme Courtwould strike down the 2010 law mandating individuals to buyhealth insurance to consoling themselves that any such actionwould have a silver lining.
James Carville says it would help the Democrats in theelection. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes thatit would make single payer -- a government health system as inthe U.K. and Canada -- “inevitable.” Other liberals, and eventhe occasional right-of-center analyst, have echoed that point:The conservative legal challenge to President Barack Obama’shealth-care overhaul could prove self-defeating.