Question: Why don’t more Republicans push toward healthcare?

As all of you know, I consider myself to be a progressive—or a “deform” Republican. I believe in healthcare for many different reasons, but my main reasoning is this: I think healthcare can play an important role in ending human trafficking. By dedicating a significant portion of it to helping victims who’ve been trafficked, we could give them access to free human services and therapy.

I’m just kind of curious—Republicans, or even conservatives (though I’m not a conservative, I am a Republican)—why don’t more of you talk about this?

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Theyitis · 36-40, M

For what it’s worth, this is my analysis as a progressive Democrat.

Republicans are currently in a very weak (unpopular, it’s a vulnerable issue for them) spot on healthcare. They can’t support Romneycare because President Obama stole it and made it Obamacare, and they can’t support anything done by a black Democratic President. So they have to come up with a healthcare plan that’s more conservative than Romneycare/Obamacare, but the problem is nothing more conservative than that works. They’re generally kind of opposed to Medicaid because they believe that government can’t help people, especially not “lazy” poor people. And that’s all the analysis I have time for just now.