Obamacare’s New Implementer-in-Chief

If lawmakers feel limited in their ability to attack the law—a silly, but real sentiment—they should focus on the inevitable taxpayer bailout of the insurance companies

Mike Needham, --June 9, 2014

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It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
On Thursday, 78 Senators, including 24 Republicans, voted to confirm Sylvia Burwell to be Obamacare’s implementer-in-chief for the rest of his term. Burwell’s predecessor Kathleen Sebelius had become inextricably linked to the botched rollout, soaring premiums and a never-ending series of unilateral alterations of law, and conventional wisdom suggested replacing Sebelius would be almost impossible because Republicans would use the confirmation process as an opportunity to expose Obamacare’s many flaws. In fact, it was one of the few things pundits could agree on last year. More...

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