Republican Party in Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco

On Health Care: ObamaCare repeal requires replacement after 2016 election

The first order of business [after Trump was elected in 2016] was repealing ObamaCare, something every Republican had run on year in and year out since it passed, and something they promised was a top priority. Still, it was much easier to rip on ObamaCare when they knew Obama would veto any effort--now they had to figure out a way to replace key pieces of legislation if they replaced it, or at the very least ensure the markets wouldn't crumble and millions of Americans didn't lose their insurance as the result of any kind of Republican dismantling.

Republicans had spent eight years trashing the Democratic health care overhaul, but now that they were in power, they ran up against the same political winds that forced ObamaCare to look like such a political Frankenstein's monster to begin with. Conservatives wanted a complete and total repeal of the law; moderative Republicans wanted to protect certain pieces of it.

Source: Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco, p.281-3 Sep 14, 2019

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