April 20, 2018
Republicans are retreating from calls to repeal ObamaCare ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Less than a year after the GOP gave up on its legislative effort to repeal the law, Democrats are going on offense on this issue, attacking Republicans for their votes as they hope to retake the House majority. Antonio Delgado, a Democrat running for Rep. John Faso’s (R-N.Y.) seat, is running an ad saying Faso broke a promise to protect people with pre-existing conditions. Faso voted for the House’s repeal bill in 2017. He says his message on ObamaCare is “keep what works, fix what doesn't.” The Cook Political Report rates the race a toss-up. Rep. Tom MacArthur, a New Jersey Republican who spearheaded a compromise that helped push an ObamaCare repeal bill through the House last spring, is also playing defense. He is in a competitive race in a district rated as lean Republican by Cook. Asked if the GOP should push forward with ObamaCare repeal, MacArthur replied: “I am focused on improving healthcare in any way we can; I'm not looking to tilt at windmills.”
ObamaCare’s favorability in polls has improved since the repeal push last year, with more now favoring the law than not. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in March found that 50 percent of the public favors the law, while 43 percent holds an unfavorable view. GOP strategist Ford O’Connell said the political winds have shifted on the issue, turning ObamaCare into a subject Democrats want to tout and many Republicans want to duck. “I don’t think it’s seen as a winning issue,” he said. “It’s also an issue that tends to fire up the Democratic base more so than the Republican base.” GOP supporters of repeal argue the House is paying for the Senate GOP’s sins. Democrats argue they have the wind at their backs on healthcare, pointing to polls like a CNN survey in February that found 83 percent of voters rate health care as important to their vote, above the economy or taxes. “If Republicans continue their war on health care and Democrats call them on it, the opposition party will continue to widen its advantage in the midterm elections,” Brad Woodhouse, campaign director of the pro-ObamaCare group Protect Our Care, wrote in a memo this month. Asked if Republicans should run on ObamaCare repeal this year, Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), replied simply, “No.”
ObamaCare’s favorability in polls has improved since the repeal push last year, with more now favoring the law than not. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in March found that 50 percent of the public favors the law, while 43 percent holds an unfavorable view. GOP strategist Ford O’Connell said the political winds have shifted on the issue, turning ObamaCare into a subject Democrats want to tout and many Republicans want to duck. “I don’t think it’s seen as a winning issue,” he said. “It’s also an issue that tends to fire up the Democratic base more so than the Republican base.”
GOP in retreat on ObamaCare
The GOP will pay a heavy price come November for all their secret meetings to sabotage the healthcare of millions of Americans.
The GOP missed their window to repeal the ACA. They have been yakking about it for many years, and once they had full control of all 3 branches, they failed. Completely, utterly and totally failed. That's something that will haunt them for a long time.
It's in their interest to pretend at this point that they supported it all along and never intended to repeal it.
The GOP missed their window to repeal the ACA. They have been yakking about it for many years, and once they had full control of all 3 branches, they failed. Completely, utterly and totally failed. That's something that will haunt them for a long time.
It's in their interest to pretend at this point that they supported it all along and never intended to repeal it.
GOP in retreat on ObamaCare
The GOP will pay a heavy price come November for all their secret meetings to sabotage the healthcare of millions of Americans.
That is not true. People adjusted to it and polling said they wanted to keep it. What's the beef?
They wanted to repeal it, but had nothing to replace it with.
They wanted to repeal it, but had nothing to replace it with.
All that winning, lol.
The GOP couldn't get a repeal through, of course they'd abandon it now. It's too close to the midterm to be messing with something like healthcare and the winds have changed regarding Obamacare. They had the perfect conditions to get rid of it, they controlled everything; and they couldn't. Now a lot of that is likely because Trump couldn't get things together, and kept the GOP on the defense with his embarrassing behavior. So the GOP could never truly group and hit the offense hard. But regardless, it was their mess up.
Will they pay a heavy price? They can, for sure, but the Dems have to get their heads out of their asses and do a good job and capitalize on this. Can they? I'm sure it's withing their capabilities, though we'll see if they actually do it. The Midterm elections are the DNCs to lose.
All that winning, lol.
The GOP couldn't get a repeal through, of course they'd abandon it now. It's too close to the midterm to be messing with something like healthcare and the winds have changed regarding Obamacare. They had the perfect conditions to get rid of it, they controlled everything; and they couldn't. Now a lot of that is likely because Trump couldn't get things together, and kept the GOP on the defense with his embarrassing behavior. So the GOP could never truly group and hit the offense hard. But regardless, it was their mess up.
Will they pay a heavy price? They can, for sure, but the Dems have to get their heads out of their asses and do a good job and capitalize on this. Can they? I'm sure it's withing their capabilities, though we'll see if they actually do it. The Midterm elections are the DNCs to lose.
The GOP missed their window to repeal the ACA. They have been yakking about it for many years, and once they had full control of all 3 branches, they failed. Completely, utterly and totally failed. That's something that will haunt them for a long time.
It's in their interest to pretend at this point that they supported it all along and never intended to repeal it.
Do they need democrat support to repeal it? YESWhat isn't true in that post?
Have they been promising for years to repeal and replace it? Yes.
Do they have control of all 3 branches today? Yes.
Did they fail to repeal and replace it last year? Yes.
The last line from me was my opinion. Opinions aren't "not true".
Your post is a failure.
IMO Republi****s & Demorats do not care about Americans & their health care issues.
Both parties are only interested in 'career politics.'
It is a shame that >90% of voters don't realize this & vote out all of these assholes.
Great post GB! As a single-payer proponent, I to have considered that I've bolded in your post.So Trump and the GOP intentionally jack up premiums, make a failed run at attacking pre-existing condition protections (resorting to stealth attacks now instead), and oversee the first rise in uninsurance in a decade. The jury's still out on whether they've made an eventual transition to some single-payer-like system a forgone conclusion but ironically they've given that movement the biggest shot in the arm its ever had.
And now they find that their favorite electoral cudgel isn't there anymore. Indeed, it's being turned against them now by Democrats.
What a waste of a decade for them.
Do they need democrat support to repeal it? YES
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They wanted to repeal it, but had nothing to replace it with.
Yay populism......:roll:
No they don't. Just like the Democrats didn't need Republican support to put it in place in the first place.
They voted to repeal it repeatedly. The reason they couldn't get it done is because of their own party Senators . Fact.
They failed, and if you cared about the future of the party, you would be concerned about that, as I am.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/health-care-debate-thursday/index.html
Partly yes, partly no. When the The Republican Party "proactively" tackles an issue, it tends to operate under two generic presumptions:
1) All problems can be dealt with tax cuts or tax credits
2) If not, block grant it
Evidence for #1 and #2 is not really needed.
This is not to say the Democratic Party doesn't have equally facile ways of approaching domestic policy, but on the Republican side, there's a wee bit too much talking point rehearsal involved.
Like the motto of the incomptent handy-man- if you can't fix it with a hammer, you got an electrical problem.
What isn't true in that post?
Have they been promising for years to repeal and replace it? Yes.
Do they have control of all 3 branches today? Yes.
Did they fail to repeal and replace it last year? Yes.
The last line from me was my opinion. Opinions aren't "not true".
Your post is a failure.
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