President Barack Obama and his party have suffered in public-opinion polls amid the health site’s troubled rollout and as some five million people lost existing coverage that didn’t meet new standards, even as the law seeks to expand coverage to many more Americans. Some Republicans are now worried that a GOP proposal to begin taxing health-care benefits offered through employers—which would affect some 160 million Americans—would cause market disruptions far more severe and expose the party to its own political peril.
– Laura Meckler, The Wall Street Journal
