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Republicans, for their part, seem no longer to want to repeal and replace Obamacare. It seems the culture war no longer sees the rush to destroy the first Black president’s signature health care law as sufficient grist. It’s moved on to juicier subjects: grooming rings, indoctrination, and replacement theory. Besides, the “serious” Republicans never had a plan for the “replace” part, anyway.
So, two and a half years into the pandemic, that leaves us in a paradox. No single issue has so fundamentally altered American life as has the pandemic—an issue that is squarely about America’s approach to public health and health care. And despite a vigorous public debate about how to address America’s clearly failing public health and health care systems going into the pandemic, the conversation about how to fix them has all been snuffed out as we emerge from it … even though we have done next to nothing about them. The health care industry is breathing a sigh of relief after vigorously fighting any effort for reform in the last two elections.
A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that 70 percent of would-be voters believed that democracy was in crisis. Only 17 percent of them believed that the crisis was a matter of the creeping rise of authoritarianism. Instead, most believed that the crisis of our democracy was corruption—the obstacles of money and influence that prevent it from translating the public will into public policy. Perhaps our failure to solve America’s health care crisis—despite a pandemic—is a perfect example.
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