Doubling down on 'ObamaCare': A 'political nightmare' for Democrats?

The White House is once again talking up the benefits of President Obama's health-care overhaul, and Republicans are licking their chops

President Obama's Affordable Care Act turns two years old on March 23, and a few days later, the Supreme Court will consider the landmark law's constitutionality.
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As we approach the Affordable Care Act's two-year anniversary on March 23 — not to mention the Supreme Court's high-stakes hearing to decide the law's fate a few days later — "President Obama's re-election campaign has launched an all-out defense of his landmark, and unpopular, health care overhaul," says Zeke Miller at BuzzFeed, making the ACA a key feature of fundraising emails and campaign videos. Republicans are eager to discuss "ObamaCare," too, since they see the topic as a "political nightmare" for Democrats. Is Team Obama smart to make a big push to turn around public opinion on his signature domestic achievement, or is any discussion of health-care reform a loser for the Left?

Obama has already lost this fight: The president's "robust re-education campaign" won't make Americans fall in love with "ObamaCare," says Guy Benson at Townhall. In fact, two years later, a battery of new polls show the law is still "deeply unpopular, and most Americans would like to see it repealed." That probably explains why, bluster to the contrary, Obama "has 'no plans' to make formal remarks on the anniversary of his own law."

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