The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has overcome a Supreme Court challenge, persistent Republican opposition and the initial dysfunction of its own website.

Any day now, a federal court may rule that in 36 states, the federal government can't offer tax credits to people who buy insurance on PPACA's exchanges. That's because the law, as written, authorizes those tax credits only in states that have set up exchanges — and most states refused to do so.

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