Health Care Upgrades Become the New Normal | RealClearPolitics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, the present upgrades may prove even more fleeting.
59% : The Affordable Care Act has become embedded in the national safety net after a third Supreme Court decision upholding its constitutionality.
55% : ARPA passed on mostly a party-line vote, as did the Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010 by President Obama.
53% : The high court's acceptance of Obamacare has come by steadily widening margins: 5-4 in 2012, 6-3 in 2015 and 7-2 in June of this year, when even Clarence Thomas, the court's most conservative justice, joined in ratifying the law.
52% : Obamacare has three goals: making health care insurance affordable for more people, expanding Medicaid, and supporting research and development of innovative medical care that might lower the overall costs of U.S. health care.
38% : Going forward, both Medicaid and Obamacare face uncertainties as the nation emerges from the pandemic into a changing health care landscape.
37% : In the wake of the court's decision, most Republicans have abandoned the effort to kill the Affordable Care Act.
35% : Medicaid, Obamacare Still Face Uncertain Future
34% : GOP congressional leaders criticized the ruling but did not renew previous calls to repeal and replace Obamacare.
33% : But the exchanges for purchasing health insurance did not come into being until 2014, and Republicans effectively opposed Obamacare in the interim between passage of the law and creation of the exchanges.
33% : But Republicans have fared poorly since the ACA took full effect; GOP efforts to overturn Obamacare failed three times in Congress and also three times in the Supreme Court.

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