, Columnist
'Repealing' Obamacare Without Repealing It
A Republican plan that sidesteps the law's regulations could make things worse.
There's a lot of fine print.
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Long before Obamacare, the federal government had been subsidizing health insurance for scores of millions of Americans. The law expanded that subsidization to cover several million more people.
If that’s all it had done, it might have gotten some Republican support: Forty Republicans in the House and seven in the Senate voted to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program in the first weeks of Obama’s presidency.