I am afraid that the socialists won on the 0bembacare socialized medicine situation.
Even Trump is talking ‘replacement’ after repeal. Replacement can mean only yet another socialized medicine situation.
The only ‘cure’ is repeal, period, and let things go back to the way they were before 0bembacare.
After ‘repeal-and-replace’ the socialists will smile and inwardly say, “We did it to them again!”
Politicians are experts at bait and switch. When the American people started making noise about unchecked illegal "immigration" and calling for immigration reform, the politicians immediately took up the cause of immigration reform. Except, instead of making the laws more conducive to suppressing illegal "immigration", the politicians started adding benefits and rewards to illegal aliens. In other words, the politicians took the American people's demands and used them as a cover in which to push their agenda.
While the tactic has been used against Americans, the old bait-and-switch can be used for us. The Democrats are demanding a "replacement" to Obamacare, one which is just as onerous and expensive as what it replaces. Trump and Republicans in Congress can keep talking about replacing Obamacare, while in fact, they are working to not just get rid of it, but to institute some of the common-sense reforms that have been needed for ages.
What do you mean by "the way things were before Obamacare"?
Obamacare, and Romneycare before it, were able to be passed because of a problem. That problem was caused by Federal legislation passed between 1965 and 1986, which by promising unlimited hospital, physician, and R&D services without cost to those unable to pay and without on-budget appropriations from Congress was slowly destroying the actual budget, the credit of the US, and our ability to govern ourselves.
Of course, Obamacare took the form it did because of who the Democrats are. It's ironic to call it "Obamacare", since Obama had almost nothing to do with its design. That plan, or something quite like it, has existed on the word processors of the Left since I went to medical school in 1972. In fact, when my Dad went to medical school in 1944, they were already talking about something along those lines.
They've built a very clever trap. And the cleverest part was getting people to believe that the essence of Obamacare is reversible, when it is not. What existed before has been destroyed, and it cannot be re-created.
I expect Trump will nationalize the system within a few years, maybe even by the Fall.