Will Senate Republicans Get 50 Votes to Repeal the ACA? (June 24th)

This coming week the Senate will take up their amended version of the House repeal bill, the American Health Care Act. Here is my assessment of the legislation's prospects posted yesterday on The Health Care Blog.  I conclude the essay by citing a 2014 study by Gilens and Page.  If the legislation passes it demonstrates, as Gilens and Page wrote, the "American public actually have little influence over the politics of our government adopts."  Phrased another way, "when a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests," they said, "they generally lose."

My essay is at: http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/06/24/will-senate-republicans-get-50-votes-to-repeal-the-aca/

Gilens and Page's article is at: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc