After more than a decade of political, legal and legislative fights, the Affordable Care Act and its champions are getting the last laugh. (via MaddowBlog)
Today, before heading to Ottawa to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Biden will host an event celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the signature domestic achievement of President Barack Obama. The event provides Biden a chance to warn that the now-popular program could be jeopardized by proposed Republican spending cuts.became law 13 years ago today, there were plenty of points at which its future appeared to be in doubt. The website didn’t work.
All the while, Republicans made all kinds of predictions about the ACA’s imminent failure and disastrous consequences. The reform law would make the United States go “bankrupt,” they said. There’d be an outrageous “government takeover” that would destroy Americans’ way of life. There would be “death panels” and “death spirals” from which there would be no escape.Thirteen years later, it’s now obvious that Republicans were wrong and the ACA’s proponents were right.
Just as important is the fact that health insurance has never been more affordable than it is now: Democrats included generous new ACA subsidies in the party’s American Rescue Plan in 2021, with some consumers seeing their premiumsThose benefits were extended last year — though many congressional Republicans are
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