The Supreme Court Protected Obamacare. So Why Aren’t Conservatives in a Rage?

Hint: They didn’t really want the law overturned

James Surowiecki
GEN
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4 min readJun 23, 2021

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Something interesting happened last week. On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act against a lawsuit brought by 18 Republican state attorneys general. But that wasn’t what was interesting. What was interesting was that conservatives…

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James Surowiecki
GEN
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.