Tensions are running high ahead of the United States House of Representatives elections this year. According to the Daily Herald, Republicans are challenging Democrats to stop hiding from the healthcare initiative of President Barack Obama and start defending it. The paper said that the Affordable Healthcare Act has been the favorite target of the GOP in majority of the congressional campaigns.
Some of the brave ones in the Democratic Party are rising up to the challenge. It is most likely that this is due because of the remarkably high enrollments and lower costs the Obama administration was able to command despite its initial lackluster figures. In his latest announcement, Obama said that there are 7 million first-year sign-ups for subsidized private health insurance, which surpassed expectations. The government's fiscal scorekeeper, the Congressional Budget Office, said that it is expecting that the customer costs will post a slight increase for the year 2015. In the next decade, CBO added that the Obamacare will save $100 billion in taxpayer money.
Democratic consultant and North Carolina-base blogger Thomas Mills said that the Obamacare is actually a good debate-starter for Democrat candidates. He said, "Democrats need to start making the case for Obamacare. They all voted for it, they all own it, so they can't get away from it. So they'd better start defending it."
Health care industry consultant Bob Laszewski chimed in and said, "I think Democrats have the ability to steal the health care issue back from Republicans. The Democratic Party can become the party of fixing Obamacare."
On the other hand, GOP strategists believed that Obamacare will not receiving the acceptance from its purported supporters as it expects to be. Texas-based Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak said that the negative opinion about the healthcare law is already baked in that Democrats will most likely fully support it in campaign trails.
