GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Follies Continue

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Greg Sargent: GOP’s Obamacare repeal follies continue: “One of the most amusing subplots of the 2014 elections…

…has been the endless and frequently comic struggles of GOP Senate candidates to articulate their position on Medicaid…. Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst… says people on Medicaid should should be allowed to keep it…. And yet she proudly touted her vote against Iowa’s Medicaid expansion and continues to be a gung-ho advocate for repealing Obamacare, which would roll back funding for the expansion…. Ernst’s repeal stance would mean all those people lose their coverage. Does she no longer think that should happen?…. Tom Cotton in Arkansas once again refused to say this week whether his repeal stance means he would roll back his state’s version of the Medicaid expansion…. Terri Lynn Land in Michigan has also refused to clarify her position on this…. Commentators are not telling the full story of how the politics of Obamacare are really playing out…. At this point [candidates] are largely attacking the word ‘Obamacare’ while reassuring swing voters they support its general goals, without saying how they would accomplish those goals…

http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/08/26/morning-must-read-greg-sargent-gops-obamacare-repeal-follies-continue/

Attack the word "Obamacare", create fear, appeal to emotion, etc. Sounds like standard republican politics. Discussing facts and specific policy options - not so much.

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