Democrats Pounce On Vulnerable Calif. Republicans Who Voted For GOP Health Care Plan
Darrell Issa of Vista, Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa, Mimi Walters of Irvine, Steve Knight of Palmdale and Ed Royce of Fullerton represent districts that went for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Meanwhile, KQED rounds up what lawmakers in the state's congressional delegation have been saying about the law.
Los Angeles Times:
Democrats To Run Ads Targeting California's House Republicans Who Voted For Healthcare Bill
Democrats on Monday will begin airing a drive-time ad on Southern California radio stations targeting five Republican members of Congress who voted Thursday for the GOP healthcare plan. The ad buy, currently scheduled to run for one week on news, sports and Spanish-language stations, is rare this early in the election cycle. (Decker, 5/5)
KQED:
Health Care Vote Could Threaten Republican House Majority
As soon as the House approved the GOP health care bill on Thursday, Democrats were working on using it against Republicans in next year’s midterm elections... Just to rub it in, many Democrats on the House floor began singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” to their colleagues across the aisle after the vote, a moment of schadenfreude hoping for the same fate many of their own suffered after the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. (Taylor, 5/5)
KQED:
What Your California Representative Says About The GOP Health Bill
After the House voted Thursday to narrowly approve a Republican-drafted bill that would eliminate many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, KQED collected statements made by California’s members of Congress explaining why they voted the way they did. We gathered comments made via social media and on the floor of the House, as well as from press releases sent out by each member’s office. (Perry, Siegel, Sepulvado and Leitsinger, 5/6)
And in other news —
San Francisco Chronicle:
Across California, Worry And Anxiety Over GOP Health Care Bill
The GOP measure would allow states to opt out of requirements for insurance companies that were put in place by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, including the prohibition on annual and lifetime caps for essential benefits like hospitalizations, and the ban on charging sick people more than healthy people. If a state were to seek such a waiver, insurance companies selling plans in that state would no longer have to comply with those rules. (Ho, 5/6)