
The Affordable Care Act’s Second Act
Now that efforts by the US Congress to repeal Obamacare have failed, it's time to redress the 2010 health-care law's shortcomings. Solutions are available, and they are to be found not in disingenuous Republican grandstanding about socialism, but in innovations that leverage the federalist flexibility that is a defining feature of US democracy.
BERKELEY – Congressional Republicans have twice failed to marshal enough votes to realize their seven-year promise to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”). Reeling from their defeat, it appears that they have abandoned the effort.