Conclusion

Abstract

A few months after the campaign, John Meyerson and I were relaxing together and talking about the work we had done. We are about the same age—midfifties—and we both had a sense that the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) campaign would be the high point of our political work. We started joking about being in our seventies and eighties and boring younger people by telling endless stories about the role we played in the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Then one of us said, “Well at least some of the people we tell our stories to will have heard about the ACA or will have been alive when we did the work. Think of Antoinette. She’s thirty years younger than us. When she’s in her seventies and eighties, she’ll be telling stories about what will seem like ancient history.”