Economically disadvantaged but nominally reliable GOP voters who now receive affordable health care coverage through Obamacare tend to not know who was responsible for making that happen, because thanks to their party's affinity for the politics of demonization, they generally don't conflate the term "Obamacare" with the Affordable Care Act itself.

I'll tell you what, though. They'll likely figure out pretty quickly who's responsible for taking that coverage away from them, if Republicans are so brazen and stupid enough to actually do so.

I sincerely hope that every Congressperson who voted in favor of this abomination of a bill is pilloried by voters in their districts.

Very happy to be proven wrong.

I wonder what those already abysmal approval ratings are going to be like in a week or so..

UPDATE: Final vote was 217-213. Here's a statement from Steven J. Stack, M.D., president of the American Medical Association:

"The bill passed by the House today will result in millions of Americans losing access to quality, affordable health insurance and those with pre-existing health conditions face the possibility of going back to the time when insurers could charge them premiums that made access to coverage out of the question. Action is needed, however, to improve the current health care insurance system. The AMA urges the Senate and the Administration to work with physician, patient, hospital and other provider groups to craft bipartisan solutions so all American families can access affordable and meaningful coverage, while preserving the safety net for vulnerable populations."

Here's the statement from NARAL Pro-Choice American President Ilyse Hogue:

"President Trump and Congressional Republicans have shown once again their commitment to punishing and burdening women with every step they take. When they undermine and take away the healthcare we need as women, they're clearly saying that women and our ability to plan and care for our families are not their priority. Giving money to their rich friends is. That is where they are so out of step with those they claim to represent. 

"Americans did not vote to have their healthcare taken away or to have their access to birth control cut off -- the popularity of the Affordable Care Act proves that. Millions have marched in the streets, called their representatives, and protested at town halls to protect women's access to healthcare, and our 1.2 million member-activists will keep rising up in protest and demanding their leaders expand women's freedom and equality."

As Nancy Pelosi noted earlier this morning, House Republicans have now tattooed themselves with the passage of what by all accounts is an increasingly unpopular measure, and have acted with a blind combativeness against the interests of many of their most loyal supporters.

We'll now what the Senate's GOP majority does in response to this live political hand grenade that's been thrown into their midst.

  True, the base will love it while under the impression that Trumpcare deprives "those people" of care, and while they can gloat and bash Obama and liberals, socialists and Democrats.

 And, that impression will be fueled by the usual lies and misrepresentations.  But, realization of what happened, such as to those in employer health plans who feel immune from the ravages of Trumpcare, will find themselves in a pre-existing condition pool if coverage is interrupted, by a change of jobs. Or, by the skinnier coverage in the absence of reasonable standards.

The Republican House and Trump did avoid another embarrassment, and achieved the real goal: and most important of all, eliminated the Obamacare taxes on the high/investment earners, so as to pave the way for the second tax cut bonanza for the high/investment earners.