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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz's Worst Nightmare is Coming True
Obamacare is working.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/obamacares-success-changes-everything-105914.html?ml=po_r#.U1fCpVTRWV4
Last August, as conservatives barnstormed the country seeking to build support for a cockamamie plan to shut down the U.S. federal government unless Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, said something surprisingly prescient about the presidents signature health-care law.
President Obama wants to get as many Americans addicted to the subsidies because he knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound, he said. The worry, according to Cruz, was that once the ACA went into effect, wed all be addicted to the sugar. Then, it would be too late to roll it back.
Cruzs nightmare, and the lefts long-held dream, has come true. Finally, after years of failed reform efforts, the U.S. government is actually trying to provide affordable health coverage for all. And its working, despite Republicans relentless attempts to deep-six the law. As a result, the politics of Obamacare will never be the same.
The rights biggest fear was never really, as Cruzs comments revealed, that Obamacare wouldnt succeed. It was that it would.
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Ted Cruz's Worst Nightmare is Coming True (Original Post)
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