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Open Enrollment, or Open Season on Obamacare?
Republicans have promised to kill Obamacare since it went into effect two years ago. The third enrollment period has just begun, and sign-ups are only half what supporters predicted. But millions of people now have health coverage that didn't have it before… and it's a rule of politics that people don't like to give up their benefits. We get a progress report on Obamacare's political future.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenRepublicans have promised to kill Obamacare since it went into effect two years ago. The third enrollment period has just begun, and sign-ups are only half what supporters predicted. But millions of people now have health coverage that didn't have it before… and it's a rule of politics that people don't like to give up their benefits. We get a progress report on Obamacare's political future.
Later on the program, taxpayers are buying patriotism at professional sports events.
Photo: Newly elected Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin
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