David Harsanyi: Republicans Aren’t Abandoning Obamacare

A new Bloomberg article concludes that the
Affordable Care Act is losing its effectiveness as a political
issue for Republicans. So many Americans are “benefiting from the
law,” theorizes Heidi Przybyla, that political ads are simply not
doing the job anymore.

This news is somewhat unexpected—and unpersuasive, argues David
Harsanyi. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll recently found that only
15 percent of Americans believe Obamacare has directly helped them,
whereas 28 percent say it has directly hurt them. And in places
like North Carolina, a quarter of political ads still
attack Obamacare specifically. This seems to suggest that it’s
still a comparatively “major issue,” Harsanyi writes.

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