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We’ve just passed the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare – although many of the law’s provisions didn’t take effect until 2014.

In its early years, Obamacare was the subject of fierce criticism from both the left and the right.

Actually, politicians on the right are still saying the same things they said a decade ago, pretending that their predictions of doom haven’t been falsified by events. But Obamacare has survived, greatly expanding health insurance coverage without busting the budget.

Critics on the left complain that it hasn’t produced truly universal health care, which indeed it hasn’t. But it has done a lot and has become quite popular.

So why has Obamacare worked as well as it has?

The thing is, critiques of Obamacare from the left have a point.

If your goal is to give people access to health care, why not just give them access, by instit