GOP is Suffering From a Critical PR Problem on Health Care
WASHINGTON — When Congress returns to work Monday, Senate Republicans will press forward with their attempt to reform the nation's health care system, an effort that has been hampered for months by internal divisions and an ineffective and inconsistent public relations push.
Low approval ratings have plagued the GOP's health care bill throughout the party's effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act because of a secretive process that ignored public input, a disengaged president who hasn't energized his base and the task of selling a bill its own party can't get behind.
The Senate will get to work again this week to settle differences over the legislation, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act, with the goal of holding a vote next week after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to postpone a vote he had planned to hold before the July 4th recess due to a lack of votes.
Selling it is unlikely to get any easier after many members of Congress spent the past week in their home states, listening to — and in some cases avoiding — voters who have concerns about the legislation.
Polls show that the party's ideas about reform are only growing more unpopular over time. When the House of Representatives passed their bill, the American Health Care Act, in early May, public support for the measure was 23 percent in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Last month, the same poll found that just 16 percent of respondents supported the GOP plan.
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