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Surprise! Obamacare Enrollment Is Actually Rising
It's possible that Republican efforts to kill the program backfired and helped to save it.
The attacks on Obamacare might just have led to free publicity.
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Donald Trump wants Obamacare to implode. That’s not a mischievous inference from his legislative misadventures; that’s a direct quote. “As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!”
It’s thus somewhat surprising that on his watch, enrollment currently seems to be on track for its best year ever. In the first four days, 601,462 people signed up for insurance through the federal marketplace, a significantly faster pace than in earlier years. And almost a quarter of them were new to the exchanges.