President Trump claims he wants to do with the Affordable Care Act what he’d done several times with his businesses: Let it fail and move on. …
But health care is not like an Atlantic City casino. Its failure would have massive, hard-to-predict repercussions. And the negative effects of that almost certainly unpleasant fallout would land largely at the feet of Trump and his party.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has asked a related question in polling in the past several months. Survey respondents were asked which is closer to their point of view: that Democrats own the problems of Obamacare because they wrote the bill or that Republicans do because they control the Congress and the White House. Each time the question was asked, about 6 in 10 respondents said that the problems are now the responsibility of the GOP. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post