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A Shutdown of Compassion: The Latest Assault on Obamacare

For the second time in a generation, Obamacare has brought Washington to a standstill — not because it failed, but because it worked.

“This is a big f***ing deal.”

- Vice President Joe Biden on the passage of Obamacare

The current shutdown of the federal government is not the first time that vital services have been paused as our elected representatives argued over the future of Obamacare. In September 2013, three and a half years after the groundbreaking law was passed with a party-line vote, Republicans held the government hostage for 16 days in an attempt to delay implementation of the law designed to give more people access to health care. This was even though Republicans had successfully added 188 amendments to the proposal as it made its way through Congress.

Republicans were forced to abandon their efforts when they were unable to rally the public behind their point of view. In the 12 years since that shutdown, they have tried hundreds of times to kill the crowning achievement of Obama’s presidency. Success eluded them until last June, when the passage of Trump’s Big…