When I sent Unprecedented to press in June 2013, I thought the saga over Obamacare was basically over. I recognized there may be constitutional challenges around the edges, including the contraceptive mandate, but I thought that the law was settled. I could not have predicted what has happened of late.

I don’t know if my book will ever make it to a second printing. But I am already working on an afterword, to explore this unexpected turn of events in the past few weeks. Not to mention what will happen with the inevitable debt ceiling negotiations.

This law continues to be, in every respect, unprecedented.