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If you need any more proof that Republicans visceral hatred of our country's first black president was driving the reaction against the Affordable Care Act, here you go.
Health care was not the top concern for Trump voters and Republican voters in the 2016 presidential election. It ranked far behind their general concerns about the direction the country is headed in, jobs and the economy, and their feelings about Hillary Clinton. Just 7% of Trump voters and a paltry 5% of Republican voters picked health care as the biggest factor in their vote.
Focus groups with Trump voters reinforce this picture; they are focused much more on making ends meet and, when health comes up, getting help with paying their premiums and deductibles. They hoped candidate Trump would find a way to help them pay their health care bills. Just like Democratic voters, and all voters, they care more about their health care costs than the partisan Washington debate about the ACA.
Republicans also don't show high levels of intensity on the issue. For example, in July, just 25% of Republicans said they had a "very favorable" view of the Republican ACA replacement plans, while 52% of Democrats said that about the ACA. [emphasis added]
They continue to say they want repeal, but that's just habit at this point. If that repeal happened and their healthcare costs start skyrocketing, they're going to turn on the Republicans in office for doing it. Because they can't blame it on the scary black man any more.
There's no jeopardy for Republicans in voting no on this crap bill (whichever one Mitch McConnell decides to throw up). The intensity against Obamacare just isn't there any more. The danger of ripping health care away from voters is definitely greater.
Make your Republican senator feel the heat. Call their office EVERY DAY at (202) 224-3121 to demand that they say NO to repealing Obamacare and ripping health care away from millions of Americans. After your call, tell us how it went.
Please give $1 to each of our Senate funds so that Republican senators know there'll be a price to pay for repealing health care.