After a Republican sweep of four recent elections for House seats, Democrats are doing some soul searching about how to regain their momentum. They need a positive economic program, some are saying, rather than the current strategy of repealing and replacing President Trump. But if congressional Republicans succeed in their effort to replace the Affordable Care Act with legislation that will cut 22 million people off of Medicaid coverage, Democrats will have their positive issue to carry into next year’s midterm elections: Restore affordable care. –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2017.
