From Jon Perr at PERRspectives:
The ink from President Obama’s signature on the Affordable Care Act wasn’t even dry when then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled the Republican mantra for the upcoming midterm elections. As he put it on March 23, 2010, “I think the slogan will be “repeal and replace”, “repeal and replace.”
Now, almost seven years later, McConnell and his Republican allies are finding out just how difficult their simplistic Obamacare proposition will really be. With Donald Trump weeks away from defiling the Oval Office, Congressional Republicans are no closer to a replacement plan for the roughly 25 million people they will soon add to the ranks of the uninsured. “Repeal and replace” has become “repeal and delay.”
Meanwhile, worried House and Senate Republicans are getting an earful from almost every corner of the American health care industry.
“That plays well before the election.”