Ted Cruz's plan to finish off Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- Ted Cruz has a plan to finish off Obamacare. It could also finish off GOP majorities in Washington if Democrats are able to shift the blame for failures in the nation’s health care system — again pitting Cruz’s own political interest against leaders in his party.
Once a reliable campaign issue that helped Republicans build majorities in the House and Senate, health care politics have changed drastically for both parties since the 2016 election.
Top Republican strategists say it’s no longer a winning message for their party — and a potential liability if they continue making changes that aren’t successful. Democrats, meanwhile, call it their most compelling argument for the 2018 election, thanks in part to changes Cruz pushed his party to pursue.
“I don’t think anybody who was paying attention to the repeal effort in 2017 concluded that Republicans got what they wanted out of that deal. It didn’t work,” said Josh Holmes, a GOP strategist who engineered health care politics for years as chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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