The Senate Republican health-care bill has been repeatedly crushed in a slow-motion collision between the party’s historic ideology and the interests of its modern electoral coalition. Yet congressional Republicans appear determined to plow right through the wreckage. … Both the House and Senate legislation seemed hatched in a time warp. In […] Read more »
Americans Back Higher Insurance Rates for Smokers, Not Obese
Many more Americans say insurers would be justified in setting higher health insurance rates for smokers (59%) than for those who are significantly overweight (37%). That gap has been evident each time Gallup has asked these questions. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
A Bipartisan Health Care Bill Will Be Tougher to Pass than a Partisan One
The calls from Democrats and many in the media for a bipartisan health care bill are understandable. But a bipartisan plan is a very heavy lift for Congress – probably even heavier than a partisan one. … Bipartisan approaches are possible on bipartisan issues. But Republicans and Democrats are light […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 74% want GOP to reach out to Democrats on health care
… Only 25 percent of voters favor the Senate’s latest health care bill (which was pulled late Monday). That’s a bit less than the 27 percent who favored last month’s Senate draft, and falls considerably short of the 40 percent who supported the House bill in May. … A 63 […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
Trump now wants to gamble his presidency and his party on the strength of his salesmanship
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 […] Read more »