Repeal or spare? Pressure is on moderates over health care
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Moderate Republicans face intense pressure on their party’s latest attempt to scrap Democrat Barack Obama’s health care law — from President Donald Trump, House GOP leaders, medical professionals and outside political groups.
Back home, their constituents provide little clarity.
In interviews, Associated Press reporters found views deeply held and deeply divided, reflective of dueling impulses to fulfil the seven-year-old GOP promise to repeal the law and to save many of its parts.
Meridene Walsh of Greenwood Village, Colorado, voted for Donald Trump for president last year partly because she wanted the Affordable Care Act gone. Now, she’s frustrated that House Republicans, including her own representative, Mike Coffman, are balking.