Health Care Takes Center Stage in 2018 Campaigns

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/22/health-care-takes-center-stage-in-2018-campaigns/

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Amy Walter: “There’s always something of a disconnect between what Washington, DC is obsessed about and what the rest of the country is worried about. In DC, of course, the story is Robert Mueller, Russia and White House chaos. Out in congressional races, however, Democratic candidates aren’t talking about any of those things. Instead, their primary focus is health care; specifically, their criticism of GOP attempts to repeal Obamacare. Ironically, while the passage of Obamacare cost Democrats their House majority in 2010, GOP attempts to repeal Obamacare may help Democrats flip House control in 2018.”

“While Republicans argue that Americans are going to vote with their pocketbooks this fall (thanks to a growing economy boosted by tax cuts and deregulation), Democrats seem to be betting that health care — costs and access — will be the more salient issue in 2018. In fact, as we saw in the special election in PA-18, Democrat Conor Lamb made the case that many of his constituents are going to have to use their tax cut refund to pay for escalating health care costs.”


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[applegrove]

1. The public also needs to have it drummed in that corporations are making a killing by

repatriating all the profits they held overseas to avoid paying taxes on them in the last 10 years. That that is a one time bump in the economy. In other words the tax cut bump is actually 1/10th of what is occurring in the economy now.

[NCTraveler]

2. Pelosi has been on this daily as have our candidates across the country.

It's a great issue for us.