by Gordon Hensley | Dec 30, 2015 | Campaign 2016, health care, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts
With so much news coverage devoted to GOP efforts to sink the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, the law is facing substantial problems largely of Democrats’ making in the year-end budget deal. When Democrats joined with Republicans to delay...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 2, 2015 | Campaign 2016, Health Reform, Medicaid funding
With pressure from conservatives to finally “kill” Obamacare, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) apparently has the votes to pass a repeal bill that also includes a provision to gut an expansion of Medicaid, which put millions of low-income...
by Gordon Hensley | Aug 10, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, polling, Television
NBC News, to its credit, has teamed with the Wall Street Journal for a number of years to field national polls conducted by the polling team of Public Opinion Strategies (R) and Hart Research Associates (D). The survey has long been considered one of the best media...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 12, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics
It was always inevitable that the Koch forces, in the form of Freedom Partners, would clash with the Republican National Committee (RNC) about control of voter contact data. The hard truth is that the RNC is on the wrong side of history, and not yet fully cognizant of...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 1, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform
The reality is simple: the GOP Senate and House will not soon be unifying around a singular plan to repeal Obamacare. And if the Supreme Court rules for the plaintiff in the King v. Burwell case to eliminate subsidies received by the 8 million enrolled in health care...
by Gordon Hensley | May 22, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush was asked by a voter at an event in Concord, New Hampshire, if there was an issue where there’s big space between he and his brother. “Sure, I think that in Washington during my brother’s time Republicans spent too...
