Campaign Action One of the most impressive bits about the Republican push to defund Obamacare and thoroughly gut Medicaid is their insistence on doing so despite furious opposition from doctors, medical groups, patients groups, the AARP, and oh-by-the-way the American voting public, and by a very wide margin. Everyone aside from Republican leadership and conservative anti-government groups recognizes that the Republican "plan" will decimate the insurance markets, leave millions uninsured, toss current Medicaid recipients off the rolls, and get people killed.