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While Republicans are busy ducking their constituents through the July 4 recess, not wanting to hear what voters think about the Republican healthcare plan, Sen. Claire McCaskill has held 10 town halls, many of them in conservative areas. Along the way, the Missouri Democrat is finding out just why Republicans might not want to talk to voters about health care:
Claire McCaskill took a quick poll Thursday in the middle of her seventh town hall in two days, asking constituents to raise their hands if they supported the Senate GOP’s Obamacare repeal plan.
Two hands rose among the crowd of about five dozen in this deep-red county. When McCaskill asked the same question earlier Thursday at a public meeting in Moberly, another rural Missouri town where President Donald Trump won overwhelmingly, no one raised their hands.
In fact, single payer was far more popular at the Macon town hall than the Republican plan was. Sure, those were people attending a Democrat’s event … but again, this was a red area of a pretty red state. McCaskill herself is still not on board with single payer, but she did express regret for having opposed a public option during the long road to passage of Obamacare. And:
McCaskill repeatedly jabbed the GOP during her town halls this week for eagerly voting on a repeal bill before Trump took office and when a veto from President Barack Obama was guaranteed — “when it didn’t count,” as she put it at a Wednesday town hall in Ashland, Mo.
It is a great sign that a conservative Democrat from a red state like Claire McCaskill is running this way on health care and hearing this kind of feedback from constituents. This goes to show that Republicans should be scared of their own healthcare plan.
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