After years of promising to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” the Republican Party is finally in the position to follow through this year, and party leaders are beginning to understand the challenges that come with the promises they’ve made regarding the Affordable Care Act. One of the big issues the GOP […] Read more »
Public Divided on Repealing Obamacare, But Few Want It Repealed Without Replacement Details
As Congress begins to work on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that one in five Americans (20%) support repeal alone, while three quarters either oppose repeal altogether (47%) or want to wait to repeal the law until the replacement plan’s details […] Read more »
Make Obamacare great again — call it Trumpcare
Believe it or not, Americans like Obamacare. They just don’t know they like Obamacare. That is, the law known as “Obamacare” and “the Affordable Care Act” is relatively unpopular. But most of the things that this disreputable law does are incredibly popular. … There’s an entire subgenre of journalism about […] Read more »
Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare?
The impending Republican drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act is crystallizing the class contradiction long embedded in the health-care debate. From the start, President Obama’s health-care reform has faced fierce opposition from working-class whites, the same constituency that anchored Donald Trump’s electoral coalition. But blue-collar whites have been among […] Read more »
The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want
This week Republicans in Congress began their effort to repeal and potentially replace the Affordable Care Act. But after listening to working-class supporters of Donald J. Trump — people who are enrolled in the very health care marketplaces created by the law — one comes away feeling that the Washington […] Read more »
How Obamacare Repeal Illustrates Conservatism’s Central Challenge
… The Republican health care dilemma has become a microcosm of the larger challenge faced by the conservative movement for the better part of a century. American conservatives are committed to the ideal of limited government power as a means of protecting individual liberty, and have repeatedly promised to achieve […] Read more »