Threat of repeal making it easier for Democrats to finally sell Obamacare
By James Hohmann February 9 at 7:58 AM
With Breanne Deppisch
THE BIG IDEA:
BALTIMORE—Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare could help Democrats do what they have been unable to for seven years: sell the American people on the benefits of the health law.
Poll numbers are moving in their direction. Grassroots organizing – from protests to town halls – is en fuego. For years, the national and local media focused on the problems with the rollout of the law. But reporters have begun writing much more, instead, about the people who stand to lose benefits they’ve obtained.
-- House Democrats are using their retreat here, which started yesterday and continues through tomorrow, to strategize about how they can capitalize on Republican divisions related to the replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
“This is one of those issues where, as time goes on, it gets better for us,” said Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “We’re going to keep up stoking the fires. … I think we have tremendous leverage.”
Rep. Richard E. Neal, the top Democrat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, expects that hospitals and some companies in the private sector will give Democrats cover by publicly warning about the potential harms of repeal. “Medicaid expansion has now become a middle class benefit,” said Neal (Mass.).
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