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I've made sure that Obamacare doesn't affect me directly, so I really don't have a dog in this fight. My one overriding concern from a political standpoint is that whatever comes out of this has to save money for most voters -- immediately. Otherwise, it will be a political disaster for the GOP and a waste of everyone's time.

> Otherwise, it will be a political disaster for the GOP and a waste of everyone’s time.

It’s certainly a waste of time. The issue is whether they do something now or waste the rest of 2017 on it. I can see this easily dragging on through the summer. Then they pass a crappy “ACA replace and rename bill” in the fall because they “promised to do something”. Then they push everything else to 2018 since “the budget is so important”. Then they pass a crappy Omnicrap budget in December after getting exactly NOTHING done in 2017. That’s how Ryan and republicans have worked since they got the majority. It’s obvious they had no plan for having a republican president and intended to follow the same pattern of getting nothing done and blaming the president for their lack of results.

Trump can’t force them to pass good bills (they don’t follow Ryan like Ds followed Pelosi). But hopefully he can negotiate republican bills in many areas and a republican budget.

I hate what they have now but prefer they rename it (the current “replace and repeal”) quick and get something done on taxes, budget, immigration, and other issues this year.

There seems to be little/no interested in R leadership to save money on Obama-Ryancare. So they better fix taxes (increase revenue), create jobs (move people off medicaid), and fix immigration (stop wasting money on benefits for illegals)