[Alberta's Child]

The one explanation that makes the most sense to me is that "health care reform" was really a misnomer. The AHCA was nothing more than the first (necessary) step in the tax reform task. Nobody in the House leadership or the White House cared all that much about the ObamaCare items in that bill. All they really wanted out of that bill was the CBO score that estimated $1.2 trillion in Federal spending reductions over ten years. Even if that forecast was half-baked at best, it was at least a very large number that could serve as the basis for a comprehensive tax reform plan.

Just my humble opinion here ...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Any fix will need to be an evolved fix. US healthcare is in way too critical a condition to be told to go on the street and fend for itself. It will need to be in hospital for months if not years.

Somehow the practicalities seem to pass the doctrinaires by, leading to fights of virtue signaling versus the possible.

[ConservativeMind]

That is what I’ve maintained, too.