Tuesday, February 21, 2017

GOP slowly realize that people like Obamacare and DON'T WANT TO LOSE IT or get inferior care.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635857/-Republicans-slowly-waking-to-realization-that-tables-have-turn-on-Obamacare-s-popularity?detail=email&link_id=7&can_id=fe4020b37f6b0a9909f482166cdbbdf9&source=email-leaked-tapes-reveal-trumps-offer-to-his-real-group&email_referrer=leaked-tapes-reveal-trumps-offer-to-his-real-group&email_subject=leaked-tapes-reveal-trumps-offer-to-his-real-group


It's the first long "district work period"—recess in less euphemistic terms—for Congress, the first chance they have to come back home and face constituents after a month of this new, disastrous Trump administration. In a reflection of just how bad things are going, more than 200 Republicans are hiding out this week, refusing to meet with their voters, and it's largely because of Obamacare. Because even if they're unwilling to look voters in the face when they tell them they want to take their health care away they're feeling the heat.
President Trump, who remains popular on the right, has mused about a replacement plan that is even more expansive than the original. The conservative news media are focused more on Mr. Trump's near-daily skirmishes with Democrats and reporters, among others, than on policy issues like health care.
[…] From deeply conservative districts in the South and the West to the more moderate parts of the Northeast, Republicans in Congress say there is significantly less intensity among opponents of the law than when Mr. Obama was in office.
"I hear more concerns than before about 'You're going to repeal it, and we're all going to lose insurance' because they don't think we're going to replace it," said Representative Mike Simpson, a Republican who represents a conservative district in Idaho. […]
"I was here in 2009 and 2010, and we're not getting the anti-Obamacare calls like that," said Representative Brett Guthrie, a Kentucky Republican who is on one of the committees tasked with rewriting the law. "I think people are going to hold us accountable for making sure we not only repeal, but we have a law in place that creates a better opportunity for people."
The demands from conservative-leaning constituents in districts like Mr. Guthrie's are plainly shifting. In a nationwide CBS News poll last month, 53 percent of Republicans said they wanted to change the law to make it work better while 41 percent said they wanted to abolish it.
It was all so easy when it was all about President Obama, and not about people's actual health and lives and stuff. And now, well now Republicans are still up the creek with little more than an outline that won't just help those still uninsured, but take insurance away from millions. It's not just Obama supporters talking about that now.

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