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These Americans Hated the Health Law. Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In.

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The coverage of the Republican healthcare bill and how it affects the elderly, and people on Medicaid, people in rural areas, is likely to have changed public opinion in the U.S. about the necessity of ensuring all Americans have health coverage. The Pew survey cited here in this NYT report by Zernike and Goodnough was done in Jan 2017, and shows a shift. The shift would be much higher today after people look hard at the consequences of what were simply hypothetical positions or ideological positions taken without looking at consequences in daily living. On Medicaid that opinion by July 2017 compared to Jan 2017 has shifted 10 percentage points for Republicans to 53% who think Medicaid is important to them and their families, according to Kaiser research. There is stronger sentiment about people having benefits taken away.  [article-55059] The opinion has shifted to where people see that coverage is important and people should not have coverage denied or benefits taken away from them. Opinion remains strong in favor of changes to reduce the high premiums, but not to replace the existing health benefits and law with no law at all to replace it. That leaves 20 million more uninsured according to the Congressional Budget Office. Changes have to be constructive is the popular view today,  and this requires dialogue between Republicans and Democrats- which has not taken place.


How the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act or pass a Republican healthcare bill failed in the U.S. Senate in mid July 2017

07/19/2017

This is the story of how Senators Collins of Maine, Moran of Kansas, and other Senators Grassley of Iowa, Paul of Kentucky decided to go their own way in mid July 2017. Leading to the collapse of efforts to pass a Republican healthcare bill that slashed Medicaid spending and allowed premiums to rise for the elderly, all without public discussion and debate or any discussion in committees to hear different views.

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