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Obamacare supporters react to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama’s health care law, on June 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. Today the high court upheld the whole healthcare law of the Obama Administration. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

After two years of intense effort to eliminate or least weaken President Obama’s health care law, Republicans at least for now are accepting it’s here to stay, and the administration is making more explicit moves to codify “Obamacare.”  Immediately after the election, House Speaker John A. Boehner declared in an interview “Obamacare is the law of the land” and suggested his party was done holding votes to repeal the law in Congress. A group of 16 Republican governors have announced they are not creating “exchanges,” the state-based marketplaces to purchase insurance that the law requires.