GOP Should Entice Dems to Help Replace Obamacare

With a Wednesday-night Senate vote, the Republican-led 115th Congress has begun to repeal Obamacare. The outgoing president’s signature law is a $2 trillion scrawl of cost overruns, climbing premiums, skyrocketing deductibles, decreased competition, and canceled health plans for at least 4.7 million Americans. It can’t be scrapped soon enough. But GOP House and Senate leaders should replace it in a way that lets Democrats help build a patient-centered system atop the ruins of Obama’s failed adventure in government medicine.It will take serious, steady work to enact a market-friendly Patient Power–based alternative to this wretched law. Democrats would vote in lock-step
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