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The president tonight did exactly the right thing. He should have done it sooner. But he did it – and it matters. He’s right to remind us how chaotic and disruptive the market was before the ACA, and right to offer a personal apology for the political obfuscation he repeated far too long. His credibility matters. He made up some ground tonight – in his usual unflappable way.
I argued today that in the long run, the current website fiasco may seem as minor in the backview mirror as it was with the Medicare D rollout. The ACA may work in the long run – both substantively and politically.
Four faves: joy in the face of a mastectomy; an argument against saying “I would argue …”; serious corporate event hathos; and dogs with balloons.
Two outrages: a drug war over-reach so grotesque it reached an innocent man’s upper colon; and a follow-up to our continuing coverage of the hideous torture of farm animals in industrial factory farming.
One essay: on the moral case for marijuana legalization.
The most popular post of the day was “Pope Francis As Saint Francis.”
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