The Vanishing Cry of ‘Repeal It’
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It was supposed to be so easy this election year for Republican congressional candidates. All they would have to do was shout repeal Obamacare! and make a crack about government doctors and broken websites, and they could coast into office on a wave of public fury. The failure of the Affordable Care Act was simply assumed. But it has not quite worked out that way. The government website was fixed, and 8.1 million people managed to sign up for insurance through the exchanges. An additional 4.8 million people received coverage through Medicaid and the Childrens Health Insurance Program. Three million people under the age of 26 were covered by their parents plans. Though the law itself has never been widely popular, most people say they like its component parts, and a large majority now says it wants the law improved rather than repealed.
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That sentiment conflicts with the Republican playbook, which party leaders are suddenly trying to rewrite. The result has been an incoherent mishmash of positions, as candidates try to straddle a widening gap between blind hatred of health reform and the publics growing recognition that much of it is working. Sometimes the dissonance reaches nearly comic levels. The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, recently won his partys primary for his Kentucky Senate seat in part by saying he wanted to repeal the health law root and branch. Last week, though, he was asked what repeal would mean for the 413,000 people who had signed up for insurance under Kynect, Kentuckys state-run exchange. I think thats unconnected to my comments about the overall question, he said. The good news is that some Democratic candidates, sensing the same change in the weather, are beginning to campaign on the laws benefits. Improving access to health care was the right thing for the country, and supporting it may turn out to be good politics, too.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/opinion/the-vanishing-cry-of-repeal-it.html
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