These Americans Hated the Health Law. Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In.<br />“The fact that people do without health insurance is a sin, in my opinion.”<br />Ms. Bell, 35, joined about 2,000 others for a women’s march in Doylestown after the inauguration,<br />and now makes calls to Representative Brian Fitzpatrick and Senator Patrick J. Toomey, both Republicans, urging them to protect the Affordable Care Act.<br />“The idea that you shouldn’t take coverage away really captured a large share of people who weren’t even helped by this bill,”<br />said Robert Blendon, a health policy expert at Harvard who has closely followed public opinion of the Affordable Care Act.<br />“As much as I was against it,” he said, “at this point I’m against the repeal.”<br />“Now that you’ve insured an additional 20 million people, you can’t just take the insurance away from these people,” he added.<br />By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGHJULY 20, 2017<br />DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Five years ago, the Affordable Care Act had yet to begin its expansion of<br />health insurance to millions of Americans, but Jeff Brahin was already stewing about it.<br />“They’re trying to repeal Obamacare but they don’t have anything in place.”<br />Five years ago, people here could barely turn on their televisions without seeing negative ads warning<br />that the Affordable Care Act would lead to rationed care and bloated bureaucracy.
