Ezra Klein: Conservatives Won On Obamacare

 

Conservatives won on Obamacare. They just don't know it. "So much has been invested in Obamacare's failure that its success would be ideologically catastrophic for its critics. Which is pretty strange, actually. Because Obamacare's success is going to end up validating some pretty important conservative ideas — and, potentially, forestalling some liberal ones. The liberal dream wasn't a health-care system where success can be partly measured by the enthusiasm of private insurers. The liberal vision was single payer, or some kind of France-like multi-payer system. The first version of a national health-care proposal with the basic shape of Obamacare was when Senate Republicans presented it as an alternative to Bill Clinton's health-care plan." Ezra Klein in Vox.