Obamacare’s Failures Enable Bipartisanship

My latest article in The Nation reflects upon the challenges Healthcare.gov has faced. The failures are obvious but the silver-lining is that Republicans and Democrats might be forced to work together to develop a compromise. 

Excerpt:

“Healthcare.gov isn’t the humiliating mess it was at its launch. It will work. Eventually, reporters will notice. Ordinary Americans will, too.

Secondly, more and more Americans will directly observe what many new Medicaid recipients and participants in state exchanges have already seen: healthcare reform is offering real coverage that will improve people’s lives…Liberals like me may be disappointed by compromises the White House is likely to make to provide GOP governors with a dignified path to accept Medicaid expansion.”

Read the full article at The Nation.

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