Keep in mind that health care remains the top issue in most polls among both Democrats and independents. At some point, you wonder if Republicans will throw in the towel on repeal-and-replace and instead embrace keep-and-manage. Perhaps the new ACA data will lead to a more robust defense of Obamacare on the merits. Drew Altman, the president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation observes, “The partisans are dug in on the ACA. That may depend on how willing they are to take on the Medicare-for-all proponents and how skillfully they are able to do it.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2019 16:30 UTC