Obamacare shrugged

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Until a year ago, Obamacare’s fans could continue to pretend the emperor wasn’t naked. Their scheme to control the behavior of their fellow citizens was all good intention.

But now, a year has passed since Congress repealed the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. And the elapsed time has revealed that Obamacare’s least popular element was not nearly as important to the law’s functioning as its proponents had represented.

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