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The ACA is here to stay. If you don't believe that give me examples of anything the government passed as law that was later repealed. Prohibition is about the only one I can think of but I want examples along the lines of the ACA, like Medicaid, Social Security, Income Tax, etc.

Social Security is an absolute financial disaster but the government is NOT inclined to repeal it. That is the way it will be with the ACA. It's NOT going to go away.

Prohibition was repealed because it turned out that people did not like it. Since it was imposed by Constitutional Amendment, the bar to get rid of it was really, really high. It went away.

People like Social Security, they like Medicaid, and they even like the income tax. Our convoluted tax code is a product of endless accommodation for various interest groups who believe that they have won tax concessions at the expense of others. They like that. Moreover, Democrats have turned the tax code into an income redistribution scheme that benefits their constituents at the expense of their political enemies. Democrats love the income tax.

The Democrat Party thought that people would also love Obamacare and it would bring them perpetual political power. That’s why they passed something that not a single Republican supported (not true for Social Security, Medicare, or the income tax) and something that was not supported by the American people. They thought that we would learn to love it. They were wrong.

The high water mark of public approval for Obamacare has passed. People don’t like it. The law as it currently exists is going away. The Democrats are going to offer to fix it with a single payer system and the Republicans are going to argue for a return to something on the order of antibellum health care. The fight has just begun.

“If you don’t believe that give me examples of anything the government passed as law that was later repealed.”

You are of course right. But the hard fact of the matter is, that the downside economics of all of these “laws” is that they will all fail without repeal. Worldwide, there isn’t enough economic activity to cover the costs of “freebies” that the world’s governments now “offer” their “citizens.” “Greece for Everyone” is looming on the horizon. So yes, the laws won’t be repealed, they will all fail along with the world economy. And it is coming a lot faster than anyone would like.