House Republicans  announced this week that they want to slash Medicaid and make dramatic changes to Medicare, and, of course, kill the Affordable Care Act, including financial aid for low- and moderate-income people and the taxes to pay for it.

But since President Obama would veto such changes, the GOP program is almost entirely to please the right-wing of the very conservative party. Because of gerrymandering of congressional districts, members of the House GOP tend to be more conservative than Republican senators.

It is unclear how  all this will play in next year’s presidential election campaign.