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Care Act: Political-Science Professor and Michael Ensley

care act: But perhaps most daunting is what lies down the road a Democrat-led war on Capitol Hill marked by subpoenas, investigations, legislative gridlock and bitter political clashes, culminating in a presidential battle royal that will make 2016 look like a garden party, according to Vancouver Courier. It's like trying to drink from a fire hose, said Michael Ensley, a political-science professor at Ohio's Kent State University. On one side of the road to Congress are the Democrats, poised for a breakthrough in the House of Representatives, brandishing promises to defend health coverage for pre-existing conditions from what they predict will be a renewed Republican assault on the Affordable Care Act.article continues below Trending Stories On the other, the Republicans, shielded by a strong U.S. economy and armed with promises of tax relief and a newly installed conservative Supreme Court justice, led by a self-proclaimed nationalist hell-bent on protecting his Senate majority with a call to arms on immigration. I think they're having a hard time figuring out what to believe and what not to believe. Democrats have made it a cornerstone of their campaigns, citing repeated Republican efforts to repeal Barack Obama's centrepiece Affordable Care Act as evidence that their Republican rivals will target the law's protections for those with pre-existing health conditions. Consider health care. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.