Giving Compass' Take:

· Alan Fram, writing for PBS, explains that an appeal of the Affordable Care Act is highly unlikely in the near term because Republicans lack the votes and the ambition to keep fighting against the statute.

· What benefits does the Affordable Care Act provide for low-income citizens? What effect would repealing the ACA have on American healthcare and citizens? 

· Learn how the Affordable Care Act is helping fight the opioid crisis.

Arizona’s new senator says he’d vote to repeal the nation’s health care law. That’s one additional Republican ready to obliterate the statute because his predecessor, the late Sen. John McCain, helped derail the party’s drive with his fabled thumbs-down vote last year.

It could well be too little, too late.

After years of trying to demolish former President Barack Obama’s prized law, GOP leaders still lack the votes to succeed. Along with the law’s growing popularity and easing premium increases, that’s left top Republicans showing no appetite to quickly refight the repeal battle.

“I’m not going to be asking for another vote on that this year,” No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas said last week when asked if he favored reopening the issue in a postelection lame duck session. No. 3 House leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said, “We need to win this election and then get more seats next year.” Each is their party’s chief vote counter.

Read the full article about the Affordable Care Act by Alan Fram at PBS.