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(128,722 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:44 PM Sep 12

GOP seems intent on losing on health care concerns

By Carl P. Leubsdorf / The Dallas Morning News

Who says political history can’t repeat itself?

President Donald Trump, his congressional Republican enablers and his highest profile Cabinet member are doing their best to ensure that the same issue that cost the GOP the House of Representatives eight years ago does so again in 2026: health care.

In 2018, Democrats took advantage of the years-long Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act that had given millions of Americans access to health insurance; along with the first Trump administration’s bureaucratic efforts to limit the Obamacare law.

This time, they stand to benefit from GOP support for a series of unpopular health policies that will cost millions their health care coverage, increase the cost for others and, even worse, possibly trigger the kinds of childhood epidemics not seen in recent years.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-gop-seems-intent-on-losing-on-health-care-concerns/

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GOP seems intent on losing on health care concerns (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 12 OP

it is a HUGE quandary for them Skittles Sep 12 #1

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1. it is a HUGE quandary for them

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Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:29 PM

Sep 12

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they don't give a DAMN if people have health insurance but they want those votes - I'm thinking more and more perhaps they're thinking they won't NEED those votes

and "took advantage", "stand to benefit" - I truly detest the way the mainstream media paints Dems in a predatory fashion. They are doing their jobs: working for WE THE PEOPLE.

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