GOP seems intent on losing on health care concerns [View all]

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.

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