Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe health care debate makes this danger particularly clear. By the late 2000s, however, the decline in employer-provided coverage and the steady rise of health care costs made status-quo politics untenable: Too many workers who made too much to qualify for Medicaid were unable to afford insurance. Meanwhile, over the same period, Republicans were winning more working-class votes, which meant that their own constituents increasingly stood to benefit from a coverage-expanding health care reform. did — sometimes by embracing a more libertarian vision of health care, but more often by incoherently and opportunistically attacking whatever the Democrats proposed. accepts a health care subsidy for the working class, without addressing all the internal reasons that the party can’t agree on what that subsidy should look like.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2017 08:15 UTC