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Obamacare Is Here to Stay

March 27, 2014 · 11:45 am ET · Leave a Comment

Matt Bai: “Can the Obama administration get to 6 million by the original enrollment deadline next week, or even after the extension into next month? Is it a victory if the president comes within 500,000 of the goal, or a crushing defeat?”

“The truth is that whether it takes six weeks or six months to meet the next arbitrary benchmark, the health care law is now embedded in the society, and it’s not going anywhere. So the only important, longer-term question, and the one that almost no one is talking about, is whether our ailing political system can actually function well enough to make it work.”

Wonk Wire: Public support for Obamacare is rising.

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