Giving Compass' Take:

• Obamacare was once seen as political poison for Democrats, but that has since changed with the current administration's proposed changes to it and the loosening of federal regulations for health insurance plans sold. Now, Governing Magazine discusses the history and future of the Affordable Care Act in these tense times.

• How and why is the ACA gaining more momentum now? And what should those working in the healthcare sector know about the way policymaking is headed?

• Read about the changes President Trump is making to the Affordable Care Act.

For years Democrats ran from the health-care issue as though it were a heap of flaming rubble, which, politically speaking, it was. Passage of the Affordable Care Act cost them control of Congress, gave rise to the upstart Tea Party movement and helped install Donald Trump in the White House.

But polls show support for the law increasing as it becomes more imperiled, and the result has been a political sea change.

A backlash to GOP repeal efforts has emboldened Democrats, who think they can seize back the House, dramatically expand coverage and turn healthcare from an albatross to an advantage even in red states like Idaho, with the help of Republicans like Christy Perry.

Democrats "don't have to defend how the ACA works" as they did when President Obama was in the White House, said Robert Blendon, a Harvard expert on healthcare politics.

"They just have to say, 'The other party wants to take coverage away from millions of people,'" he said.

Read the full article about Obamacare's future by Mark Z. Barabak at Governing Magazine.