Opinion: President Trump has managed to make ObamaCare popular again, writes jasonrileywsj
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released in December 2016, just before President Obama left office, showed that the Affordable Care Act had a favorability rating of 43%, while 46% viewed it unfavorably. Last month, the same poll showed the nine-year-old health-insurance law well above water, with 50% viewing it positively to 39% negatively.
Those numbers help explain why most Republicans in Congress aren’t eager to campaign on repealing ObamaCare in 2020. Republican candidates ran hard on “repeal and replace” in 2016, and...
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