President Trump clearly recognizes, at least in the abstract, that providing affordable health care is a political winner. … Yet his Justice Department formally backs throwing out Obamacare — without any replacement legislation ready to go. … Trump once said that “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” In […] Read more »
Unlike Mueller, health care will likely be a top issue in 2020
The biggest 2020 news this week is not the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. It’s that President Donald Trump’s administration has asserted for the first time that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down. Health care has consistently been listed by voters as a top […] Read more »
Public Opinion on the Domestic HIV Epidemic, Affordable Care Act, and Medicare-for-all
Kaiser Family Foundation has been tracking the public’s attitudes towards the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic for more than two decades and this month’s survey explores the public’s attitudes towards and experiences with HIV/AIDS in the U.S., in light of President Trump’s announcement of his plan to eliminate the HIV epidemic in […] Read more »
President Trump Still Wants to Repeal Obamacare
The health-care proposal likely to loom largest over the 2020 presidential election was released last week—and it didn’t come from a Democrat. In the 2020 federal budget that President Donald Trump unveiled, he renewed his commitment to repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with a block-grant system that […] Read more »
Looking to the Future, Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts
When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country in decline economically, politically and on the world stage. While a narrow majority of the public (56%) say they are at least somewhat optimistic about America’s future, hope gives way to doubt when the focus turns to specific […] Read more »
Have House Democrats lurched left? Not those from swing seats
Support for a government takeover of health care is Exhibit A in the charge by President Donald Trump and other Republicans that the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has lurched to the left. But a close examination of sponsorship for the House legislation recently introduced by Rep. Pramila […] Read more »