I Should Have Known That Obamacare Repeal Was Doomed

Three White House moments that form a cautionary tale for Republicans

Your humble correspondent, talking health care with her boss (immediate left) and The Boss, and other colleagues.

[We interrupt our previously scheduled series on ending secret prices in health care to bring you breaking news: Republicans Are About to Blow it Again on Obamacare.]

It was my first time in the Oval Office. I mean, with the president. I had once been given an after-hours tour with my family during the second Bush administration as a favor by my sweet friend whose unfortunate White House job was to “liaise” with (i.e. babysit) Senate health staffers.

It was just me in there with my boss, the head of the Domestic Policy Council (a brilliant, hilarious, passionate and ethical friend, who later became the U.S. ambassador to wherever and left me in the middle of the price transparency fight).