"I think the Affordable Care Act is actually doing quite well," says Senior Fellow  in this podcast. Rivlin, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies and director of the  at Brookings, cited the expansion of medical insurance coverage, declining cost growth, and other positive factors for the ACA. She also reflects on continued political opposition to the law, the impending King v. Burwell Supreme Court case, and what it was like to stand up a new federal agency, the Congressional Budget Office, in 1975. Also in the podcast, Senior Fellow , director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, offers his regular "Wessel's Economic Update." Show Notes: •  (with Mark McClellan) •  •  Subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on , listen on , and send feedback email to .