It looks like Walgreens has bowed to customer pressure anddecided not to relocate its corporate headquarters from Illinois toSwitzerland after all.

Now, regardless of how you feel about our steep corporate taxrate, the labyrinthine loopholes or even overpaid CEOs, what I likeabout this is the effectiveness of the market.

In short, the company faced a backlash over their threat to moveoverseas. It generated enough outrage and bad press that executiveshave announced the company will remain stateside. That's marketforces at work. No government intervention needed.

Speaking of which, a new survey from Morning Consult showsnearly 60 percent of voters say eligible exchange enrollees shouldget their promised subsidies regardless of whether they boughttheir coverage through a state-run or federal exchange under thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In fact, only 15percent argued to the contrary in the poll.

Granted, this means next to nothing as far as the courts areconcerned, since they are beholden to no one. But it does speak towhat Congress should be considering—when all they'd need to do isfix a single sentence to make this particular problem go away.

But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? Why fix something youwant to fail? I've long since argued that since this law waspassed, it should survive or die on its own, without unduetampering. But we've seen hard evidence that where the law wasembraced—and exchanges established and Medicaid expanded—the numberof uninsureds has fallen dramatically. Whereas, states that foughtPPACA every step of the way, Texas and Florida, to name just two,have experienced very little progress.

So it's a tough—if not downright misleading—argument for criticssuch as Scott and Perry to point out what a failure PPACA is whiledoing everything in their power to sabotage it. It would be a lotlike me refusing to put oil in my new Jeep, and then blamingChrysler for making such a crappy product when the engine locks upand I get left on the side of the road.

And keep in mind that despite all this expanded coverage, theaffordable part of PPACA remains as large as misnomer as it everwas.

Sure, everyone loves those subsidies—and expanded (and federallyfunded) Medicaid now—but that bill will come due, for both statesand regular taxpayers. And then we'll be left with one hell of ahangover.