Democrats have pushed an election-year package expanding “Obamacare” coverage through the House. The legislation, though, has no chance of survival in the GOP-led Senate.
have fortified health care’s potency as a 2020 campaign issue.
GOP lawmakers’ votes against the House measure seemed certain to pop up in campaign spots this fall. In a taste of those ads, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday’s vote gave lawmakers a choice between strengthening health care protections or being “complicit” in Trump’s effort to dismantle it. They’ve talked ever since about reprising that theme in this year’s campaigns by focusing on curbing drug and health care costs and saying Republicans want to dismantle the Obama law’s patient protections. Republicans have denied that that is their goal.
The legislation would also cut federal payments to states that don’t expand Medicaid to cover more low-income people, as Obama’s statute allows. Around a dozen states, mostly run by Republicans, have opted not to do so.
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