Democratic candidates focus on health care as nearby intermediaries
Democratic candidates focus on health care as nearby intermediaries
In a windowless conference room, Senate Republican candidate Martha McSally asked executives at a small crane company how the Republican Party's tax cuts helped their businesses when a woman said: "I want to ask you a question on health care. "
Marylea Evans told how, decades ago, her husband had not been able to obtain health insurance After developing cancer, he forced the couple to sell part of their Texas ranch to pay for their treatment. Now she was worried about the Democratic announcements that McSally, currently a congresswoman, supported the legislation eliminating the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing medical conditions.
"It's a lie," McSally said quickly, accustomed to having to interrupt a discussion about tax cuts to stop attacks on medical care. But she had voted for a powerful bill that, among other things, would have undermined protections for people with pre-existing conditions and drastically changed and reduced Medicaid.
The exchange showed how Democratic arguments about health care are resonating with voters in the last weeks before the mid-term choices. While the Democratic enthusiasm this year has been largely driven by anger towards the president Donald Trump, the candidates have focused their messages to focus more on medical care.
It's the subject of most political ads on television now, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, and an important issue in the campaigns from Virginia to Arkansas to California, and especially in Arizona, where Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has become the Foundation of his campaign in the Senate against McSally.
"The Democrats believe that medical care is the problem that is going to give the majority," said Nathan Gonzalez, editor and editor of the non-partisan internal elections. "In 2016, the Democrats realized that attacking Trump was not the right strategy, so they are trying to be more specific."
The Democratic rage over medical care comes from Trump's push to repeal President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. House Republicans voted for a bill that would have pushed back parts of "Obamacare." But the Senate never accepted the bill, and its own attempt to reverse the health care law failed by one vote.
This year, the Trump administration supported a group of attorneys general of the Republican Party who filed a lawsuit claiming that "Obamacare" is unconstitutional. The administration highlighted the protection of pre-existing conditions as unsustainable.
The Democrats are effectively playing the political judo in the Republican Party, which accused them during four election cycles of ruining the medical care of voters with "Obamacare" and promised a hasty derogation once they returned to power. Now that the Republican Party has tried to change health care, the Democrats are swooping down.
"You see in every survey, whether it's a Senate race in a red state or a Chamber race in a purple district, health care is the number one problem," said Patrick McHugh, of Priorities USA, a large group of Democratic campaign. "One of the parties wants to expand health care coverage and reduce costs, and the other party campaigned saying they did, but when they came to power, they did not."
In Missouri, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill is defending her position by noting that her Republican challenger, state Attorney General Josh Hawley, signed the lawsuit for pre-existing conditions. In Michigan, Democrat Elissa Slotkin issued an ad that showed her mother dying of cancer and called for the vote of incumbent Republican Rep. Mike Bishop for the Republican Party health bill "breach of duty." In Arizona, Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a doctor, is facing Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko after surprising the political world by losing just one April special election to the seat on a health care platform.
Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster, points out that health care is a perennial Democratic-based problem, but acknowledges that it seems especially potent this year. However, he said, Republicans have a possible counterattack: to reject the support of some Democrats for a single payment system that would require more taxes.
"That, as a rejection message, proves very well," Bolger said.
Republicans have used it in races where Democrats have backed the policy, such as Katie Porter, a lawyer who challenges Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in Southern California, or social worker Kara Eastman, who has relied heavily on the one-time payment in his challenge to the representative. Don Bacon in Nebraska. The Republican Party even imposed the charge on Democrats who have not supported a single payment program, such as Abigail Spanberger, who is challenging Representative David Brat in Virginia.
Gonzalez said Republican Party responses show that they are fighting on the territory of the Democrats and preventing the Republican Party from politically benefiting from the growing economy.
"The Democrats believe that medical care is the antidote for Republicans to talk about the economy," he said.
The Arizona Senate contest provides a microcosm of the issue. The Democrats began to beat McSally in medical care with an advertising barrier from a group of dark money during the Republican Party primary and they did not give up, accusing her of trying to protect protections for preexisting conditions and charging older people more for health insurance. Sinema mentions the subject wherever he goes. In an interview with the Univision network in Spanish on Wednesday, he called it "the centerpiece of my campaign."
In a recent appearance to gather volunteers in Scottsdale, Sinema was introduced by Leslie Foldy, a 64-year-old journalist. "I've had diabetes since high school, I've been taking insulin injections ... for the past 47 years," Foldy said.
Sinema picked up the subject and ran with him. "We have the opportunity to elect a senator from the United States who understands Leslie's difficulties to make sure she has access to the important drugs she needs and is not discriminated against because of a pre-existing health condition," she said. It was an excavation in the Republican Party health bill that McSally supported for containing what she calls an "age tax," a provision that allows insurance companies to charge people aged 50 to 64 who buy insurance with health exchange rates five times higher than younger consumers. Under the ACA, the limit is three times higher.
In an interview, Sinema described his health care agenda as a struggle primarily to preserve the popular parts of "Obamacare." She said that she did not like everything related to the bill and said that she had sponsored bills that delayed or canceled some of their financing mechanisms: taxes on medical devices and health insurance.
McSally, instead, focuses on the shortcomings of the law, blames him for raising health premiums for small businesses and other consumers, and argues that Republicans are just trying to make things better. She gets angry about the "age tax" attacks because she wrote an amendment that adds $ 90 billion in subsidies so older consumers can protect themselves against higher insurance rates. Although the Republican Party health bill contained provisions that weakened the protections of the pre-existing conditions of the ACA, McSally calls the pre-existing conditions "a line in the sand" that will protect.
"We all have people in our lives who are fighting chronic diseases," said McSally. "It's personal for all of us, Democrats are attacking this line because they know that medical care is personal."
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