Via AP:
The Senate's surprise vote early Friday was only the latest narrow escape for "Obamacare" - the social program with nine lives.
It has survived dozens of votes to kill it in Congress and two Supreme Court challenges.
Experts say the saga of Affordable Care Act illustrates how difficult it is to do away with a government program once millions are benefiting.
The "repeal and replace" debate in Congress might just have convinced more people that the federal government should guarantee health care.
An AP-NORC poll in July showed that 62 percent of Americans think it's a federal responsibility to make sure all Americans have health insurance, a 10 point increase from 52 percent who said that in March.