GOP Health Care Bill Is Extremely Unpopular But Republicans Still Pushing It On Us

House Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is less popular than more than a dozen major bills spanning nearly three decades, according to analysis from Massachusetts Institute of Technology political science professor Chris Warshaw.

Using historical data from the Roper Center’s polling archives, Warshaw found that the American Health Care Act’s average approval numbers lagged significantly behind polling on everything from Bill Clinton’s failed 1993 attempt at health care reform to the 2008 bank bailout.Twitter Ads info and privacy

“It’s rare for Congress to move ahead with legislation when the signs are this clear that the public doesn’t want it,” Axios’ David Nather and Lazaro Gamio noted.

The Republican bills are weighed down in large part by the lopsided partisan dynamics at play. Especially in recent years, it’s not unusual for opinions on political topics to be deeply polarized, with people who identify with one party strongly in support of a bill or policy and the other side equally opposed. But while Democrats are almost unanimous in hating the House and Senate GOP health care bills, rank-and-file Republicans have been comparatively lukewarm.

A Kaiser Family Foundation compilation of recent live-caller polling found that Republican support for Obamacare replacements ranged between 26 percent and 63 percent in June, with most surveys putting it below 50 percent. In contrast, two-thirds or more of Democrats opposed the plans in every poll.

“In a hyper-partisan political climate, it’s actually an accomplishment to write legislation this unpopular,” Ryan Enos, a Harvard University political scientist, noted during the March debate over the bill.

But Republicans still want their representatives to get rid of Obamacare. In a recent HuffPost/YouGov survey, just 55 percent of Republicans backed the House GOP bill, but 68 percent said they’d prefer it over no repeal at all.

- Ariel Edwards-Levy

My Take:  So you get that? Republicans still want their representatives to get rid of Obamacare. They hate it. They resent it. It provides desperately needed healthcare that previously low-income people could not afford. You see it really bugs them that minorities are included among the low-income but they have an economic ideology to lean on that gives them an "economic" reason to oppose the healthcare assistance for the low-income that is really just cover for objections to assistance for minorities. So much B.S. has been cooked up through the years to accommodate their ever ongoing fear and hate.

And oh yes, "it is rare for Congress to move ahead with legislation when the signs are this clear that the public doesn’t want it" but the covert racism is so very ingrained and the disregard for the will of the people is so very ingrained that Republicans are going ahead with it anyway. They do not care what the people want so they are going ahead with it regardless of the will of WE THE PEOPLE. They are not operating with reason, they are operating under very dark and strong emotions. 

What else do I need to say? It has always been this way with the GOP. They SERVE THE RICH AND POWERFUL and the poor white dupes but not the majority of people of this nation. 

I guess what I'm trying to say or to ask is how can a political party like this remain a viable party and even hold the presidency and congress? 

Money. 

You the people are letting money infect a political process and you are watching as it robs you of what you want. You can stop it. When you get fed up enough you can stop it. Fed up enough? 

This always comes back around to MONEY and in this case mixed with backward right-wing thinking. This is however first and foremost about M-O-N-E-Y buying off your congressman and thereby circumventing your vote. If you, the people can get campaign finance laws reformed again and overturn or through congressional legislation neutralize Citizen's United then you may get congressmen and presidents to pay attention to what YOU want.
Yes, I know, getting off the actual subject of the article but the indifference shown to YOU is all so well illustrated throughout this healthcare drama.