Republicans love this new health care plan. Too bad it's basically a tax cut for the rich.

True to form, conservatives are praising a policy proposal that will deprive millions of Americans of insurance

Medicaid patient
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The Affordable Care Act has been a policy success. It has substantially reduced the number of uninsured, while slowing the growth in American health care spending. The people who have been newly insured under the ACA like it.

None of these things have made the law popular among the population as a whole. But if there's one thing that's less popular than the ACA, it's repealing the ACA. For this reason, Republicans opposed to ObamaCare have to at least pretend to have an alternative.

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Scott Lemieux

Scott Lemieux is a professor of political science at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., with a focus on the Supreme Court and constitutional law. He is a frequent contributor to the American Prospect and blogs for Lawyers, Guns and Money.