Paul Krugman: despite the opposition, Obamacare is "still a huge success story."

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23. Louisiana is looking to be the ...

... 31st state to adopt Medicaid Expansion, Utah is talking about it, and Alabama has just now gone into a Medicaid Expansion frenzy. Governor Bentley recently brought the topic up, and a state commission came out unanimously for Expansion. Those things usually don't happen by coincidence.

When Alabama falls, the South falls.

Expansion in Louisiana and Alabama would add more than 500,000 people to the rolls of the insured. That, in turn, will cause everybody else's insurance in those states to go down, as hospitals will not need to make up for the cost of emergency room care by billing insured customers a higher rate.

Thanks, Obama!

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Post Script: What's with "The Liberal Conditional"?

A lot of Progressives, even Paul Krugman, will go out of their way to say things like, "ObamaCare is working, but we can do better...." or "President Obama has done a good job, but...." I think it is implicit that we all want perfect perfection, so are these phrases worn like some kind of badge of progressive honor? Many people condemn candidates for running away from the President, but, then, they run away from him with many of their comments. It's puzzling.