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For Obamacare, it's finally showtime

By Politico  
   January 02, 2014

Obamacare just got real. Sure, there were some new rules and benefits over the last few years, but that was just a warmup. Starting today, all of the big pieces of the Affordable Care Act ? the biggest domestic achievement of Barack Obama's presidency and one of the most far-reaching changes in American social policy in decades ? go into effect. And Americans will start to see, for better or worse, how the law really works. Private health coverage starts for more than 2 million Americans who managed to get through that federal enrollment website or the state-run versions. People with pre-existing conditions can't be turned down anymore. Subsidies will start to help low- and middle-income people pay for their insurance.

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