EDITORIAL: Eugene Robinson: GOP discovers ACA has staying power
That's a rhetorical question, of course.
The framework laid out by House Speaker
The surrender comes in the promise to keep the most popular features of Obamacare, which are a guarantee of coverage for those with pre-existing medical conditions and a provision ensuring that dependents can remain on their parents' insurance until age 26.
The evasion -- let's go ahead and call it dishonesty -- is that the
In effect,
The fundamental lie of omission in the
But whether the federal government pays out more in subsidies or takes in less revenue because of tax credits, the reality is the same: Guaranteeing access to affordable health care is expensive.
Make no mistake, this has been a bad patch for the ACA. The chief executive of one health insurance giant, Aetna, opined last week that Obamacare has finally entered the "death spiral" that
That is called self-fulfilling prophecy:
But in one crucial sense, the Affordable Care Act succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams: It fundamentally changed the nature of the health care debate in this country. Access to affordable health care is now seen as a right not just for the elderly and the desperately poor but for all Americans; and government is seen as the guarantor of that right.
The fact that
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