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    Doyle McManus: Who's to blame if the ACA blows up?

    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Oct 19, 2017 3 minutes

    President Donald Trump still doesn't get it: He owns Obamacare now.

    He's been hard at work undermining the government-regulated health insurance program - eliminating subsidies to insurance companies, slashing programs to enroll new customers, authorizing bare-bones plans to lure healthy patients out of the insurance pool. But if the system collapses, he insists it won't be his responsibility. "I think the Democrats will be blamed for the mess," he said on Monday.

    Trump's argument is twofold: Obamacare wasn't his doing, and

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