"Where's The Train Wreck?"
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Obamacare is doomed! A trip down memory lane. "Ever since October 1, when the launch of healthcare.gov went awry, politicians and pundits have been issuing warnings of doom. And whenever the Administration proved one of these predictions wrong, by crossing some threshold or achieving some milestone, the critics simply came up with new disasters the program could not overcome....Those of us who got the enrollment predictions right did so for two very simple reasons. We listened to what people with actual knowledge (inside or outside) told us about what was happening. And we avoided rash or predictions of extreme success or failure, because such statements almost never come true. Those are good rules for talking about health care policy -- or any big debate, for that matter. And maybe the best thing about Tuesday at the White House was listening to Obama adopt a similarly measured tone. 'In the months, years ahead, I guarantee you there will be additional challenges to implementing this law,' he said. 'There will be days when the website stumbles -- I guarantee it....There will be parts of the law that will still need to be improved.' The president was right. Obamacare's future will include rough patches, just as its past did. That won't preclude success and it certainly won't make it a catastrophe." Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic.
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