Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jan 2017
GOP’s health law attack spurs messaging battle
4 January 2017 - Trump, in tweets, suggests Republicans risk backlash with quick repeal of ACA.
Donald Trump fired off tweets and President Barack Obama trekked to Capitol Hill on Wednesday at the start of a battle aimed at controlling the political messaging as Congress takes its first steps toward dismantling the president’s signature health-care overhaul.
The incoming president warned congressional Republicans that they risk a backlash by moving quickly to repeal the law, adding they were better off letting Democrats own what he called “the failed ObamaCare disaster” and allowing the system to “fall of its own weight…”
The outgoing president offered some advice of his own, urging congressional Democrats to explain in concrete terms how he said the Affordable Care Act had improved people’s lives.
