Obamacare repeal could haunt Senate Republicans in 2020
Some of the bill’s thorniest provisions would take effect right before the 2020 election, when a host of GOP senators are up for reelection.
By Kyle Cheney and Elana Schor
07/17/2017 07:20 PM EDT
Obamacare dogged Democrats for years at the polls, toppling their congressional majorities and stoking partisan fires that still burn in Washington. But if Republicans are ultimately able to pass their own health care plan, they will face their own repercussions — and some will hit at a painful time.
Like the 2010 health care law, the GOP bill would not take effect all at once. Many of the most politically tricky provisions are staggered over the coming years and would hit right as a promising group of freshmen Republican senators come up for reelection in 2020.
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