As health care goes into effect and the GOP lays plans to repeal it, progressives are sitting on their hands, The Daily Beast's Matthew Yglesias says. The press is littered with stories about hardworking American families who, thanks to bad luck, ended up in tragic situations, unable to get insurance for a sick kid or parent. The American health-care system has long been a cruel joke, taking care of the old or poor with Medicare and Medicaid, with middle class people well insured—unless they lost their job. But not anymore. Obama's health-care reform fixed some of the worst inequities in the insurance system. And now Republicans are moving to kill it. Sure, the reform law is not perfect, but it's a positive change, yet as the GOP promises to repeal it in a single stroke if it gains a congressional majority, the left is getting steamrolled.
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