Americans by more than a 20-point margin prefer the existing federal health care law to the latest, imperiled Republican alternative — another challenge to the GOP’s long-held effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »
The Cassidy-Graham bill probably won’t become law. And more than half of America is good with that.
Republicans’ last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare was always a moonshot. A bill proposed by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looks like it doesn’t have enough support in the Senate to pass a party-line vote. Republican leaders were trying to rush something through by Sept. 30. And […] Read more »
More than two-thirds of Republicans want Congress to enact an alternative to the ACA
According to a new POLITICO/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, more than two-thirds (71%) of Republicans want Congress to try again to enact an alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In contrast, a majority of Democrats (57%) believe Congress should move on to other issues. … One […] Read more »
Trump’s Tap Dance With Chuck and Nancy Comes at a Price
There seems little question that President Trump has enjoyed his September dalliance with the two top Democratic leaders in Congress, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Aside from the Supreme Court confirmation of Neil Gorsuch, which isn’t technically legislation, this is the only significant legislative […] Read more »
Public Ranks Children’s Health Insurance, Marketplace Stabilization Higher Priorities than ACA Repeal
Among health priorities facing urgent deadlines in Washington in September, the public ranks repeal of the Affordable Care Act lower than reauthorizing funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and stabilizing individual health insurance marketplaces established by the ACA, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s new tracking poll finds. CONT. Kaiser […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ Poll: Majority Want DACA, but Trump Backers Oppose It
A majority of Americans support congressional action to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but Republicans — and particularly President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters — want to end it, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »