Sometimes it is important to be reminded that you win elections in order to do things for the country. Not vice versa. In the tumult of the here and now it’s often difficult to suss out the chicken and egg in this continuum – not least for those involved in all the politicking and policy-ing. But this is the thread of civic virtue that redeems the raw and vice-ridden world of politics. So with the hopes of a Senate hold darkening for the Democrats, take note of the fact that ‘Obamacare’ is working, working better than even most advocates anticipated and even Republicans are now quietly conceding the fight. Read our report.
As Bill Kristol wrote twenty years ago, the biggest danger of health care reform is that it would work and there’d be no going back.
