Obamacare — the country’s largest expansion of health insurance since Medicare and Medicaid — is still not widely accepted. Yet the list of states signing up for the program seems to keep growing. Obamacare follows example of Social Security and Medicaid:
Gov. Roy Cooper is applauded as he speaks during a bill signing to expand Medicaid coverage, at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in downtown Raleigh, N.C. on March 27, 2023.
“Wow, have things changed,” Jonathan Cohn wrote in a HuffPost piece explaining how the turnabout happened. — When Congress was considering Social Security in 1935, conservatives and many business executives bitterly criticized it. One Texas newspaper described Social Security as “a huge sales tax on everybody on behalf of the oldsters.” A Wall Street Journal editorial predicted that the law would eventually be reason for Congress to look back in “humiliation.” Not exactly: Social Security is so popular that it is known as a third rail in American politics.
Twice, it survived by a single vote — first, by Roberts’ 2012 Supreme Court vote, and then by Sen. John McCain’s late-night vote against its repeal in 2017. Since then, however, Obamacare has been gaining Republican support.
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