Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have secured enough support to attempt a half-assed Obamacare repeal that includes significant cuts to Medicaid. As Politico reports, this may not turn out well for Republican incumbents in 2016:
Putting an Obamacare repeal on the president’s desk would mark a major psychological — if not an actual — victory for Republicans. But it also could come with electoral repercussions that Democrats believe could boost their efforts to recapture the Senate in 2016.
This week, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is poised to clinch the elusive 51 votes he needs to pass a repeal after devising a bill to appease a small group of conservative Republican senators. But the new version also would gut an expansion of Medicaid that’s put millions of Americans from low-income households on the insurance rolls.
And it just so happens that some of the most vulnerable Republicans up for reelection next year are from states that have expanded Medicaid and extended health care benefits to thousands of their constituents.
Democrats see a campaign ad that writes itself: Sen. X voted just last year to take away health insurance from tens of thousands of constituents.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) probably won’t see much short-term fallout from the latest effort to scrap Obamacare and Medicaid, but this narrative has the potential to inflict a serious political wound on the freshman Senator. We are reminded of a story from last March, just a few weeks after Gardner first began campaigning for the U.S. Senate, in which Gardner flat-out lies to an elderly Colorado woman who asks him about Medicaid. Manu Raju reported on this Gardner campaign stop for Politico on March 27, 2014:
A woman on a breathing tube made clear that she was relying on Medicaid to survive.
“I was on my death bed, literally,” she told Gardner. “It kept me alive.”
“We got to protect Medicaid,” Gardner told her.
Asked about that episode later, Gardner made clear he opposed Colorado’s move to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. “I don’t know how Colorado is going to pay for it,” he said. [Pols emphasis]
It’s not difficult to see how this might be a problematic issue for Gardner as he prepares to cast an official vote to slash Medicaid.
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How exciting! Yertle McConnell is boldly going where no Congress has ever gone before…..to pas a piece of legislation which would repeal part of Obamacare!
I wonder what the president will do when it reaches his desk…… The anticipation is unbearable!
At least now they can tell their rabid base that they did something. It seems a little weak knowing that it is never going to be signed but hey they've gotta screw people to get to Obama. I guess it is better than shooting black youths at point blank range in some kind of vicarious killing of Obama but good government is a concept that seems to escape them.
No such thing, according to the Lord Reagan Almighty 🙏🏻🗿
Cory pulls Granny's tube. Sells itself.
Granny's safe, as long as she's on Medicare. If you're under 65, though, Cory has a message for you:
STOP BEING A BURDEN ON THE STATE AND JUST DIE ALREADY.
I am pretty sure there is a market solution that would replace Medicaid. Sadly it includes people dying because they cannot afford medical treatment.
it is kinda their own fault for not being rich, or being able to work at a job with decent insurance, or not living in some other country.
We really should start calling them “pro birth” because once someone is born they mostly don’t much care if they die. Or are executed.
Or are a murdered innocent if it occurs outside the womb.