Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
After years of playing defense, Democrats say the politics of health care have turned in their favor.
By Burgess Everett and Heather Caygle
03/12/17 07:08 AM EDT
Updated 03/12/17 09:39 AM EDT
The past four election cycles, Democrats have been battered and bruised by political attacks over Obamacare.
Now, they say, the time has finally arrived to take the fight to Republicans.
With the GOP in charge of Washington — and charging ahead with their own remake of the health care system — the Democratic Party is convinced that the politics of the ever-potent issue is shifting dramatically in their favor.
House Democrats are angling to make the GOP’s plans to reverse Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and slash insurance subsidies the defining issue of the 2018 midterms. Some party officials privately say Democrats could ride a backlash over Obamacare repeal all the way to control of the lower chamber — and, in the Senate, stem what are expected to be heavy losses thanks to a Republican-leaning map.
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