DON’T REPLACE OBAMACARE!!!! Just repeal it. Then start removing the government from medicine. This call for Obamacare’s replacement is a Statist attempt to keep government control in place, just cloak the more irritating facets of it, but strengthening it in the process. I would not be even a little surprised if McConnell comes up with a Republican version of single-payer because the private insurance “system” is hopelessly degraded and Republicans have accepted that “everyone” has a right to insurance and must have it. The argument now will be what is the best way to force universal insurance on the population. The Republican scheme will be labeled the free market approach but the free market will not even be plausible illusion.
There is political and populace will to tweak obamacare, but not for a full repeal. In some form, this thing is here to stay.