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Conservatives, don’t rely on judges to fix healthcare

By Tiana Lowe Doescher

Published December 17, 2018 4:49pm ET

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Conservatives, don’t rely on judges to fix healthcare — This image provided by the U.S. Supreme Court show Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, left and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. in the Justices' Conference Room before a investiture ceremony Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, at the Supreme Court in Washington. | (Fred Schilling/AP)

Conservatives giddy with a recent federal court ruling deeming the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional ought to hold their horses. Yes, the ACA needs to go. But Republican legislators aren’t getting away with the eight-year lie that they would repeal and replace the crumbling healthcare law so easily. Republicans hoping that a bit of judicial activism will save them from actually having to do their jobs and rewrite the law are in a fever dream.

The president is apparently among them.

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