When House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said after the 2012 election that, “ObamaCare is the law of the land,” he was more stating the facts, than waving a white flag. Republicans haven’t entirely given up on neutering, or at least undermining, President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has survived several legislative attempts at repeal, a harrowing Supreme Court challenge, and now a presidential election that promised critics their last best chance of killing PPACA before it takes full effect in 2014. Still, a lot of the nuts and bolts of the ...