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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, March 15, 2025

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Dump The Myth That ObamaCare Froze Out Republicans

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BY FROMA HARROP It’s true. The Affordable Care Act was passed without a single Republican vote. Republicans repeatedly cite this fact as ObamaCare’s original sin, a fatal flaw that justifies their efforts to dismantle the ACA. But let’s set that record straight. ObamaCare was a bipartisan plan. It just didn’t get a bipartisan vote. Despite rumors to the contrary, the reforms weren’t some radical idea imported from outer space. They were modeled on a conservative […]

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Froma Harrop
Froma Harrop
Harrop is an American writer and author. She is best known for her bi-weekly syndicated column which appears in about 200 news outlets including the Seattle Times, Newsday, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, Detroit News, and Real Clear Politics and The Providence Journal. She is represented by Creators Syndicate Inc. in Los Angeles. Media Matters ranks her column 20th nationally in total readership and 14th in large newspaper concentration.