GOP may not be punished if it can’t pass repeal

The GOP base will punish Republicans in upcoming elections if they fail to deliver on their promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or at least make an all -out effort to do so. That’s the conventional wisdom, right? It was the political motivation behind Republican efforts to pass a widely unpopular repeal-and-replace plan, and then to consider a risky repeal-and-delay plan in the Senate.

Except for one problem: When you look at the polling, the idea that the base will rise up and punish Republicans if they don’t repeal the ACA appears to be exaggerated, and possibly even a political fiction. CONT.

Drew Altman (Kaiser Family Foundation), Axios