“Conservatives Always Said that the ACA Would Result In Huge Drops in the Rate of Uninsured. And They Always Supported the Civil Rights Act.”
Shorter Republicans 2010-2014: “The ACA will not reduce the number of people without health insurance. Indeed, it might make this problem we don’t consider a problem worse.”
Shorter Republicans 2015: “Everyone knew that the ACA would result in a huge drop in the number of people without health insurance — what does that prove? Besides, how can we really know that it all isn’t a big coincidence?”