Do Republicans Have a Death Wish on Healthcare?
June 1, 2016
News Article
Do you know how Obamacare is funded? That is, do you know where the money comes from that pays for the operation of the exchanges, the subsidies people get when they buy insurance and the expansion of Medicaid to millions of new enrollees in more than half the states?
I’ll bet that not more than 1 in 100 people know the answer to that question. No, make that 1 in 1,000. And most of those are probably inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway.
Yet this little known information, that the vast majority of voters have never heard about and have very little interest in, has been the focus of intense debate among Republican Party insiders—especially activist group insiders—for quite some time. In fact, it is disagreement over what to do about this one issue that is most responsible for the fact that Republicans have allowed six long years to pass by without agreeing on how to alter, amend, abolish or simply replace Obamacare
