Democrats spin GOP’s Obamacare strategy as an attack on middle class

Published November 14, 2017 9:58pm ET



Democrats on Tuesday found a new way to argue that the GOP tax bill will hurt the middle class when Republicans announced their legislation would eliminate Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty.

Republicans said the penalty is hurting lower-income earners who cannot afford the rising price of insurance premiums and are then forced to pay what the Supreme Court has said is an Obamacare “tax.”

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