"Repeal and Replace" becomes ...

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... "Repeal and Delay."

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress plan to move almost immediately next month to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as President-elect Donald J. Trump promised. But they also are likely to delay the effective date so that they have several years to phase out President Obama’s signature achievement.

This emerging “repeal and delay” strategy, which Speaker Paul D. Ryan discussed this week with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, underscores a growing recognition that replacing the health care law will be technically complicated and could be politically explosive...

...It is not sheer coincidence that at least one idea envisions putting the effective date well beyond the midterm congressional elections in 2018.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us...re-repeal.html

So, they'll repeal it and promise an eventual great replacement (without details), but only after the midterms. In other words, they know full well how hard it will be to do this and how their changes will likely piss off or punish many voters. You'd think that after 6 years and over 50 "repeal and replace" votes in Congress that they'd actually have a better idea about what a replacement should look like. It seems that governing is going to be a lot harder than rabble-rousing in the House.