Can Obamacare survive without Obama there to prop it up?

Published October 30, 2017 4:01am ET



The first open enrollment for Obamacare starts Nov. 1 without its architect and chief advocate in the White House, raising questions about how it will fare under a new administration that views repeal of the law as one of its main priorities.

When former President Barack Obama was in office, he openly worked to sell plans on the law’s exchanges and to fund the law, sometimes issuing decisions beyond what his critics considered were allowable under presidential authority.

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