You know, because the law is so overwhelmingly popular.

Via Washington Whispers:

She’s certainly not as boisterous as her late husband, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, but Vicki Kennedy is quietly working to hold up his legacy on Obamacare and beyond.

“I don’t strong arm people, it’s not my style,” she tells Whispers. “But I will do anything I can touting the benefits and continuing to talk about what a difference it makes in the lives of families,” she says of the Affordable Care Act, which her husband was instrumental in getting passed.

Kennedy wasn’t even threatened by House Republicans latest move, to defund the legislation.

“I think when all the dust settles, people will never let it be taken away and I think you’re getting last gasps,” she says. “It’s been passed by the House, it’s been passed by the Senate, it’s been signed by the president, it’s been affirmed by the Supreme Court, that’s all three branches of government.”