Politics and Policy

Attention Likely to Shift to Health Law

After Budget Distraction, Measure Could Become Focus of Greater Scrutiny

Updated Oct. 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. ET

The end of Washington's budget showdown is likely to shift attention back to President Barack Obama's health law and its rocky rollout, news of which was sometimes submerged in the past 16 days of struggle.

Both the government shutdown and the opening of new online health-insurance exchanges happened on the same day, Oct. 1. Republicans tried to defund Mr. Obama's law as part of a deal to reopen the government, but the law emerged...

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