First and foremost it’s because most people hate the underlying Republican philosophy pertaining to health care. But most Americans really do consider access to health care a right: not just access to buy insurance if you can afford it, but real access to real health care. And ordinary people got really furious that the Republicans were trying to take their personal health care benefits away. Add to the mix the revival of the coalitions that had originally passed the Affordable Care Act – Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and Save Our Care. That real, intense, up-close-and-personal stuff made it perfectly clear to many of them that voting for the “TrumpCare” bill could mean political suicide.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2017 09:11 UTC