BARACK OBAMA signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23rd, 2010. Exactly four years later J. Louis Felton, a pastor in Philadelphia, led his flock in an unusual procession: out of church and onto a sales bus owned by a local insurer. “We need to sign up,” Mr Felton says. “People in our communities have never had the opportunity to get health coverage before.” On the bus he prayed for Obamacare’s success.It could use some help. The fight over the law makes mud-wrestling look decorous. This year Obamacare is, yet again, Republicans’ favourite weapon on the campaign trail. On March 25th it was, yet again, debated in the Supreme Court (see article). Meanwhile, Mr Obama continues to undermine his own law by delaying parts of it: this month officials said Americans could keep old plans that don’t comply with Obamacare for another two years.America is the world’s only rich country not to have universal health care. Obamacare was meant to address that. In the past insurers charged the sick higher rates than the...
from The Economist: United States http://ift.tt/1jz5gHm
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