You won’t get an inch closer. You’ll get farther and farther and farther away.
Maybe that’s what you Dem operatives driving all this want.
Defeatist much?
If we don’t have the votes to do it right, it’s best to do nothing at all. ObamaCare is such a disaster that anything less than a FULL repeal and FULL replace is courting disaster.
Half a loaf in this case just won’t do. Tweak just one thing and it will forever be known as TrumpCare — every problem in health care will be tied to Trump and the GOP.
Best case in this scenario is to just tell the American people that we don’t have the votes in the Senate to do it right, so embrace the suck. You gave the Dems a super-majority in 2008 and you’re living the consequences. If you give us a super-majority in 2018, then ObamaCare goes away. If not, then continue to enjoy the suck.