Republicans have an astonishing capability to stick their heads up their cans: they have run on repeal ... not rePEEL ... moreover by trying to do repeel in the same legislation as repeal they are dooming the effort on top of that.
They need a clean repeal bill, citing the lies used to get ACA done the way it was, first with no effort to repeel as part of it. This should happen on schedule even if no subsequent repeel happens.
Republican voters would love to someday get something other than Democrat-Lites who do the same things that Democrats do ... but only with minor differences!
It’s been my view that Ryan put up this POS knowing Trump would almost have to get behind it for several reasons. What l’m not sure of is whether Ryan thought it would pass. I do believe Preibus was behind making this the first thing on the agenda.