Well if they don’t put a replacement in place, it seems very likely to me that the balance of public sentiment will shift from hating Obamacare to hating “Whatever replaced it” even more and if they lose majorities in either house of Congress in 2018, Obamacare damn sure is here to stay.
Of course the purists would rather suffer under Obamacare than accept a compromise because...they’re purists.
And the “unpurists” want to keep Fedzilla in charge of all healthcare and medical records.