G.O.P. Faces Risk From Push to Repeal Health Law During Pandemic

[Zorro]

Republicans and the Trump administration continue to press to end the Affordable Care Act even as the virus leaves more Americans worried about affordable health coverage.

Republicans are increasingly worried that their decade-long push to repeal the Affordable Care Act will hurt them in the November elections, as coronavirus cases spike around the country and millions of Americans who have lost jobs during the pandemic lose their health coverage as well.

The issue will come into sharp focus this week, when the White House is expected to file legal briefs asking the Supreme Court to put an end to the program, popularly known as Obamacare. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seizing on the moment, will unveil a Democratic bill to lower the cost of health care, with a vote scheduled for next week in the House.

Republicans have long said their goal is to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act but have yet to agree on an alternative. This week’s back-to-back developments — Ms. Pelosi’s bill announcement on Wednesday, followed on Thursday by the administration’s legal filing — has put Republicans in a difficult spot, strategists say.

“Politically, it’s pretty dumb to be talking about how we need to repeal Obamacare in the middle of a pandemic,” said Joel White, a Republican strategist who specializes in health policy and has presented legislative proposals to House and Senate Republicans and the White House. “We need quick solutions here; we need stuff that we can do tomorrow, because our countrymen are hurting.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/politics/republicans-health-care-coronavirus.html

"Politically dumb" is Republican SOP.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Well, duh!

Ya think?

[BigmanPigman]

2. I hope after I die I can become a ghost

because I plan of making every GOP sadist miserable and driving them even more insane than they already are. As an atheist I don't believe in God but I have experience with ghosts and believe in them. I hope I have this opportunity. My own Karma, in a way.

[Dan]

3. I thought that the SCOTUS

Was going to make a determination on the legality of the Affordable Care Act? And potentially based on their decision it would kill the Affordable Care Act....mid Pandemic.

[struggle4progress]

4. "Let them eat garlic cloves and hydroxychloroquine and leeches"