For your health. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images The Republican Party’s official position on health-care policy is incoherent — because its actual one is politically toxic. Throughout last year’s Obamacare fight, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan assailed the law for leaving millions of people uninsured, and saddling others with sky-high deductibles — while pushing legislation that would have left 20 million more people uninsured, and saddled the average American with even higher deductibles. The cause of this disconnect was plain: The GOP’s actual objection to Obamacare — that it raised taxes on the wealthy to subsidize health-care coverage for the poor and working class — does not resonate with a majority of the party’s own voters, let alone with the public at large. The ever-rising cost of health care, declining availability of full-time jobs with generous benefits, and soaring inequality has produced a broad, bipartisan consensus that the government has a responsibility to make health care more affordable — and that raising taxes on the rich is an acceptable means of doing so. Thus, Republicans have to pretend that they share the Democrats’ commitment to providing all Americans with affordable health care — they just disagree about how to… Read full this story
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