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Reporter's Notebook: Government shutdown stalls as Democrats demand Obamacare subsidy extension

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Government shutdowns can be pretty boring.Until a shutdown impacts you.There’s a missed paycheck. Flight delays. You can’t visit the Smithsonian. Questions about food and drug safety.You get the idea.But until you reach that tipping point, most Americans are ho-hum about government shutdowns and interpret the infighting between Democrats and Republicans as de rigueur on Capitol Hill.So they don’t pay much mind to them.However, Democrats engineered a scheme in advance of this fall’s government shutdown. They would transmogrify the shutdown into something Americans care about: healthcare.DEMOCRA...

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