Eugene Robinson:The Affordable Care Act is here to stay

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-affordable-care-act-is-here-to-stay/2014/01/02/86126f1a-73e9-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html?hpid=z2

Now that the fight over Obamacare is history, perhaps everyone can finally focus on making the program work the way it was designed. Or, preferably, better.

The fight is history, you realize. Done. Finito. Yesterday’s news.

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Throughout the nation’s history, it has taken long, hard work to win universal recognition of what we consider our basic rights. Perhaps future legislation will expand and streamline the ACA reforms until everyone is covered. Or perhaps we’ll move toward a single-payer system, possibly by expanding Medicare and Medicaid until they meet in the middle.

I don’t know how we’ll get there, but we’re now on the road to universal health care. There’s no turning back.

[Thinkingabout]

1. K & R

It may not be known as ACA or Obamacare in the future but in some form it will be health care for the US. Perhaps the greatest flaw is using a Republican model but we have health care. In France health care is $10 a month or for $30 a month you can have a Cadillac policy. One of the ways this happens is the insurance companies is nit getting a take of which does nit provide health care. Their doctor office visits are around $8. They do not have rooms full if claims agents, all cost passed on to the public.