{"id":1510,"date":"2025-12-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:05:21","slug":"watch-what-do-republicans-really-want-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/watch-what-do-republicans-really-want-on-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: What Do Republicans Really Want on Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>What the Health? From KFF Health News<\/em>, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Avik Roy, a GOP health policy adviser, to talk about how health care has evolved as a Republican issue.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, a co-founder and the chair of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said health care affordability has become a more salient issue for the GOP under President Donald Trump, with more people from working-class backgrounds voting Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Before Trump, he said, the party\u2019s support was more concentrated among those covered by employer-sponsored insurance or Medicare, the public program for those who are 65 or older or have disabilities \u2014 voters less likely to be concerned about affording medical care.<\/p>\n<p>An abbreviated version of this interview aired on <em>What the Health?<\/em> Episode 423: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/podcast\/what-the-health-423-obamacare-aca-subsidies-rfk-cdc-november-20-2025\/\">The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/obamacare-aca-fraud-gao-enrollment-marketplace-brokers\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangeladvertising.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}