Except the fix we're in.
Either the Republicans vote to bankrupt the treasury and subsidize Obamacare or they permit the Democrats to run on the issue in the upcoming election risking their own reelection.
How many conservatives on these threads believe that the Republicans will do the right thing?
I expect the House will pass something, though perhaps not on the first try. This will probably contain some kind of a transitional mechanism which will have to be VERY carefully designed, leading to a clear exit strategy, or it will lead to a conservative revolt. In the Senate, there is a high probability that 51 Republican Senators will be unable to unite around anything at all. About 45 of them will be ready to support something similar to the House plan, but getting to 51 will be difficult.
Then the question is whether the Democrats simply filibuster and defy the GOP to risk a complete collapse of the individual insurance market. This is likely. I wonder if several of the states with Republican governors and legislatures are prepared to step in.
The Republicans gave up any pretense of fiscal conservatism during the presidency of George W. Bush and the associated Congressional leadership of Dennis Hastert and Bill Frist.
The Republicans demonstrated their acquiescence to Obamacare when the House under the leadership of John Boehner refused to use the power of the purse to defund the program. Since taking control of both the House and Senate in 2015 the GOP has not sent a bill repealing Obamacare and passed by both houses of Congress to the president. The GOP has no intention of taking real action to repeal Obamacare because the ultimate goal of the multinational corporations and “too big to fail banks” funding the party is to move the cost of employer paid health insurance from corporate expense to the backs of the taxpayer.
Hence, Republicans in Congress are active collaborators with the Democrat Party in the ultimate quest for single payer government controlled healthcare. They will not do the right thing on healthcare, trade, climate change, government regulation, education, taxes, or the national debt. They are representatives of powerful special interests, not the people.
Not a chance, sad to say. Not with the "leadership" now running what has become a clown car.