Republicans grapple with voter frustration over rising health care...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : For example, he wants to expand the Affordable Care Act exemption given to U.S. territories to all 50 states and reintroduce a first-term Trump policy that gave Americans access to short-term health insurance plans outside the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
60% : With notices of premium spikes landing in mailboxes now and the open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act health plans beginning Nov. 1, the political pressure has been evident in Republican town halls.
60% : " But the number of people who rely on Affordable Care Act health insurance has increased markedly since before the pandemic.
57% : (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Washington.
56% : Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told NBC on Wednesday, "I fully believe the president has a plan," but didn't go into details.
55% : President Donald Trump and GOP leaders say they´ll consider extending the enhanced tax credits that otherwise expire at year's end - but only after Democrats vote to reopen the government.
52% : " At the center of the shutdown - now in its fourth week with no end in sight - is a Democratic demand that Affordable Care Act subsidies passed in 2021 be extended.
47% : Party leaders have not outlined how they´ll handle the expiring tax credits, insisting they won´t negotiate on the issue until Democrats agree to end the shutdown.
43% : A September analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that permanently extending the tax credits would increase the deficit by $350 billion from 2026 to 2035.
40% : Many Democrats credited their ability to flip the House in 2018 during Trump´s first term to the GOP´s attempt at repealing Obamacare, and they´re forecasting a similar outcome this time.
38% : The first caller on a telephone town hall with Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, leader of the House´s conservative Freedom Caucus, came ready with a question about the Affordable Care Act.
37% : His uncertainty reflected a familiar Republican dilemma: Fifteen years after the Affordable Care Act was enacted, the party remains united in criticizing the law but divided on how to move forward.
36% : That tension has come into sharp focus during the government shutdown as Democrats seize on rising premiums to pressure Republicans into extending expiring subsidies for the law, often referred to as Obamacare.
36% : Some Republicans dismiss projections that ACA premiums will more than double without the subsidies, calling them exaggerated and arguing the law has fueled fraud and abuse that must be curbed.
32% : "The cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it´s not good Healthcare," he wrote on Truth Social in November 2023.
30% : Because Obamacare is a disaster.

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