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Via Daily Beast:

. . . For my part, I’m both astounded by GOP efforts to smear groups like the United Way, and unsurprised. If Republicans have shown anything over the last four years, it’s that they’ll do anything to stop the Affordable Care Act, even if it amounts to legislative sabotage.

Indeed, what’s frustrating about the current conversation over Obamacare is the extent to which there’s been collective amnesia regarding the GOP’s categorical opposition to the law. Pundits who see the problems with Healthcare.gov as an indictment of “big government liberalism”—or, as Ross Douthat put it, evidence of “The welfare state’s ability to defend itself against reform”—neglect to grapple with the concrete consequences of the GOP’s monomaniacal crusade against the Affordable Care Act. How would the status quo look if Republican states embraced the Medicaid expansion and worked to build their own exchanges (see the success in Kentucky, for instance)? What if, instead of casting endless repeal votes, GOP lawmakers worked with Democrats to fix problems in the law? And what does the political situation look like in a world where Republicans don’t attack the Affordable Care Act as a step on the road to serfdom?