Reason number one and number 100,001 we need Democrats to take back Congress this fall: If Republicans win, they’re likely to make another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. You might not be hearing a lot about that directly from Republican congressional candidates right now, but that’s because "Repeal is like fight club," as a “GOP operative” told Axios. "First rule is not to talk about it."
“Don’t make it a cutting Medicaid exercise — make it a 'screw the blue states' exercise and block grant to states with normal Medicaid growth, and you win," a senior GOP aide said.
And Sen. Lisa Murkowski—one of the Republican “no” votes that helped doom the last Obamacare repeal effort by Republicans—has acknowledged it could happen: “I suppose that it’s all in the numbers, and if you had a significant enough shift in the Senate and you came up with a replacement that really did generate a level of support, yep.”
That’s health care for millions of people we’re talking about. Republicans want to end it, no matter how many lives it costs.