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Obamacare Shouldn't Have Been Managed Like a Campaign
Obamacare's disasters illustrate the folly of trying to make sweeping changes without broad political support.
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Another Sunday, another amazing reported piece on the rather amazing history of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges. You'll have to read the whole thing, because summary won't do it justice. But here are a few highlights:
This has, rather predictably, triggered opposite reactions from left and right. The response from the right is somewhere between schadenfreude and slack-jawed amazement. The response from the left is, I think, summed up by Kevin Drum in "The Lesson of Obamacare: Sabotage Works":