Collins has voted against repealing the health care law, but supported a separate law enacted in 2017 that effectively eliminated Obamacare’s requirement that everyone hold insurance. “This administration is trying to take health care away from million of Americans. ADIn private, Republican officials working on down-ballot races vented their frustration with the administration’s decision to revive the health care fight, while acknowledging that repealing Obamacare remains a core issue for their base. Some in the Trump administration, including Attorney General William P. Barr, have privately argued parts of the law should be preserved amid a pandemic. Some conservative lawmakers largely shrugged, noting that the Republican Party has tried to overturn the health care law ever since it was enacted in 2010.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2020 00:00 UTC