Trump’s decision to lean in on health care in recent days has been met with a stiff-arm from congressional Republicans. What we are seeing here is the marking of a willful GOP capitulation to Obamacare. Calling for repeal was an effective tool for Republicans when Barack Obama was in office, and it was purely theoretical. It is not really possible for Republicans to deal with this issue today, since Democrats now control the House, sure. Absent a shift in American health care that would be widely understood as a true “catastrophe,” there will probably be even less momentum behind supplanting Obamacare come 2021.

Source: Washington Post April 03, 2019 17:09 UTC