Opinion | Efforts to kill Obamacare made it popular. Trump says he'll try again.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Definitely don't look to Trump, whose secret plan to replace Obamacare with "something terrific," remains, alas, perpetually two weeks away.
69% : But if voters who appreciate the Affordable Care Act evaluate the candidates' actual records, Biden deserves to win by a landslide.
58% : Nearly every major plank of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- such as guaranteeing coverage to people with preexisting conditions, expanding Medicaid, and allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance plans for longer -- was and continues to be favored by the public.
48% : Ever since these failed efforts, Obamacare has consistently garnered more favorable than unfavorable views from the public (59 percent to 40 percent in the most recent KFF poll, from May).
47% : the Affordable Care Act, was a winning issue for Republicans.
42% : Obamacare was a technical and complicated suite of programs, and government complexity is generally an opportunity for demagogues.
40% : Such disdain had relatively little to do with what the law actually did.
40% : The GOP repeatedly tried to "repeal and replace" the law, but could not come up with anything that would prevent millions of Americans from losing care.
38% : But for the most part, it was the GOP's fearmongering campaigns that gave the law a black eye.
37% : Over the weekend, he declared on social media that the failure to terminate Obamacare during his presidency "was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!"Ramesh Ponnuru:
30% : To be sure, there was once a time when destroying Obamacare, a.k.a.
27% : What's more, stymied only by a couple of uncooperative Democratic senators, Biden brought Congress tantalizingly close last year to concluding the unfinished business of Obamacare: making eligibility for health coverage virtually universal, as is already the case in all other rich countries.

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