Obamacare is very much alive, surging.

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump shouted at every rally that Obamacare is a disaster and that it is dying.   In his ten months as president, he has engaged in what can only be called sabotage, in multiple efforts to kill it.

And yet, after the first week of the open enrollment period for the coming year, the federal exchanges that administer enrollment for the ACA-Obamacare are busier than ever.   They're even saying that enrollment is "surging."   On the first day, something like 200,000 people visited the sign-up sites, twice as many as a year ago.

Trump's administration may have slashed the budget to promote signing up, and reduced the amount of open time, and threatened to stop paying subsidies -- but don't underestimate people-power.    Among others, late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel is urging his viewers to "do something positive, like sign up during the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period that's happening now."  He then gives a sales pitch listing some of the advantages for those who don't have health insurance.