Steve Chapman on How Obamacare Proves the Virtues of Federalism

No issue in
recent years has polarized Americans as much as Obamacare. It
produced a party-line vote in Congress, a near-fatal court battle,
a revolt by states that refused to run exchanges or expand
Medicaid, dozens of House votes to repeal it and, now, a bungled
launch that could be its undoing. It’s a barroom brawl that never
ends. Steve Chapman says that it didn’t have to be this way,
pointing to examples of other once-controversial issues solved by
federalism.

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