"A number of apologists for the Obama administration declare themselves
vexed at the ongoing hostility to the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (which isn’t affordable, and from which many people are seeking
protection), regarding resistance to its charms as a perverse and
irrational gesture, uncalled for, eccentric, and strange. It’s the law
of the land, they tell us, passed fair and square by both houses of Congress, crowned as constitutional by the
highest court of the country, and ratified by the people in Obama’s
reelection. They note that other historic reforms—Medicare, Social
Security—had troubled beginnings and then were embraced by the nation,
and that even the Civil Rights Act of 1964, preceded by outbreaks of
terrible violence, was accepted quite quickly once passed."
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