"The news that the insurance exchanges in Obamacare have exceeded their original enrollment projections—the projections made before the bungled website rollout cost two months' of sign-up time and created a branding catastrophe for the entire program—is sending reverberations of shock through Washington. One immediate conclusion is that the Republican war to strangle Obamacare in the crib has come to pieces. The plan assumed, correctly, that the new law would be most vulnerable in its nascent stage. Republicans hoped that a combination of legislative attacks, on-the-ground activism, and coordinated messaging could deprive the new insurance exchanges of the customers they needed to form a critical mass, either as a political constituency or as an actuarially stable mix of customers. They failed."
Jonathan Chait at New York reacts to the latest news about the Affordable Care Act, as discussed in President Obama's speech.
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