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LetMyPeopleVote

(179,906 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:02 PM Dec 2025

MaddowBlog-ACA's popularity reaches new heights as Republicans struggle with health care policy

GOP officials keep insisting that the Affordable Care Act is a disaster. The American mainstream clearly disagrees.

Republicans’ health care problem #1: They have no idea what to do about health care

Republicans’ health care problem #2: They’re about to be blamed for massive price increases

Republicans’ health care problem #3: The ACA keeps becoming more popular, despite GOP smears
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Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-09T17:19:48.888Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/acas-popularity-reaches-new-heights-as-republicans-struggle-with-health-care-policy

Part of the foundational problem for Republicans is that they continue to hate the ACA, which they’ve long referred to as “Obamacare.” As recently as Monday, Donald Trump insisted that the reform law is “so bad.” A week earlier, the president similarly condemned the existing system as “a disaster.” Countless GOP officials have pushed similar rhetoric, not just in recent days, but for the last 15 years.

This creates an obvious dilemma for Republican officials: They don’t want to use subsidies to bolster a law that they hate, but if they don’t, consumers will blame them for failing to do the right thing for the American people.

And even though Trump and his party see the ACA as a disaster, much of the country apparently disagrees. Consider the latest national polling report from Gallup:

Americans’ approval of the 2010 Affordable Care Act has edged up to a new high of 57% as the clock ticks down to Dec. 31, when enhanced healthcare subsidies enacted during the pandemic are set to expire unless Congress takes action.

Gallup has tracked Americans’ approval of the ACA since November 2012, and the latest rating is up three percentage points from last year’s, which was similar to the previous 55% high recorded in April 2017 and in November 2020
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...In theory, Republicans might see this, worry about a public backlash and move quickly to protect consumers ahead of this month’s looming deadline. In practice, GOP leaders don’t want to, regardless of the ACA’s growing public support. Tick tock.


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Wed Dec 10, 2025, 03:44 PM
Dec 2025

Republicans in Congress have a free gym & health insurance we pay for, & they trash the ACA that gave millions healthcare for the 1st time. The “much better healthcare plan” Trump’s been promising for 11 years is “kill the ACA & install chin-up bars in airports.”

BlueBird (@sun2stars.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T00:51:52.617Z
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