With Coverage in Peril and Obama Gone, Health Laws Critics Go Quiet
For seven years, few issues have animated conservative voters as much as the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But with President Barack Obama out of office, the debate over Obamacare is becoming less about Obama and more about care greatly complicating the issue for Republican lawmakers.
Polling indicates that more Republicans want to make fixes to the law rather than do away with it. President Trump, who remains popular on the right, has mused about a replacement plan that is even more expansive than the original. The conservative news media are focused more on Mr. Trumps near-daily skirmishes with Democrats and reporters, among others, than on policy issues like health care. And the congressional debate, as well as the paid advertisements on both sides, is centered on the substance of the law rather than its namesake, draining some of its toxicity on the right.
As liberals overwhelm congressional town hall-style meetings and deluge the Capitol phone system with pleas to protect the health law, there is no similar clamor for dismantling it, Mr. Obamas signature legislative accomplishment. From deeply conservative districts in the South and the West to the more moderate parts of the Northeast, Republicans in Congress say there is significantly less intensity among opponents of the law than when Mr. Obama was in office.
I hear more concerns than before about Youre going to repeal it, and were all going to lose insurance because they dont think were going to replace it, said Representative Mike Simpson, a Republican who represents a conservative district in Idaho.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/affordable-care-act-critics.html
Skittles
(153,154 posts)they hated it when Obama was president, but now they are worried about losing their coverage? FUCKING RACISTS.
wcast
(595 posts)The young government teacher in the high school in which I teach, and I, were talking about the ACA. When I told him it was a republican plan, he acted confused. He said no republicans voted for it. I told him that didn't matter that the plan was devised by a republican think tank, implemented by Romney, a republican, and that Obama chose it instead of universal care was that he naively assumed that republicans would jump on board.
I've had that talk with several people who thought Obama should have waited until he had republicans behind them. My response, with which they had no reply, was that if they wouldn't get behind their own plan, then nothing would have ever gotten done, and something was better than nothing.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)through his wife"s Goldman Sachs job benefit.Amazing isn't it that we are stuck and they find the answers for themselves. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-laz-congress-members-health-insurance-20150218-story.html
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Many of the protesters are Republican