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    Erasing Obama

    Trump will have his quickest success overturning Obama’s immigration policies, but the Affordable Care Act will be cumbersome to repeal.
    by Matthew Cooper Nov 25, 2016 4 minutes
    Supporters of the Affordable Care Act celebrate after the Supreme Court upheld the law in the 6-3 vote at the Supreme Court in Washington June 25, 2015. To kick some 20 million Americans off the Affordable Care Act without an alternative would present a huge political problem for incoming president Donald Trump and the GOP.
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    Vice President Joe Biden put it best: “This is a big fucking deal.” His blunt appraisal was picked up by a microphone at the 2010 ceremony where President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. The law was the biggest step toward national health insurance in the United States since the enactment of Medicare in 1965, and Obama signed it with 22 pens, most of them distributed as souvenirs to beaming Democratic members of Congress who stood nearby applauding.

    The ACA and many of the biggest achievements of Obama’s eight years in office are now at risk. Donald Trump, the president-elect, has repeatedly vowed to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and napalm the Democrat’s policies on immigration, the

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