One of the principal features of AHCA is its reliance on state governments to improve the health care system. Sure, Medicaid is being slashed, and protection for pre-existing conditions may be devolved to state high risk pools, but aren’t the states better equipped to solve problems than the feds? After all, they’re closer to their people, and know their issues better, than the federal government. Just give them a little flexibility, and they can do the job better than a bunch of Washington bureaucrats.
Your response to this will depend on how you perceive the governments of red states. If you think that the legislatures and governors of red states are predominantly populated by one-world Christian Democrats who genuinely feel the pain of their poor constituents even though they typically vote for the Democratic Party, you might accept this line of reasoning. On the other hand, if experience tells you that red state governments are usually controlled by Reactionaries who actively despise poor people, oppose all forms of wealth redistribution on principle (particularly to undeserving minorities), and want to make the lives of people relying on the public purse as miserable as possible, you certainly won’t.
No prizes for guessing which camp I’m in.