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simple two-page document, an Alabama congressman has filed a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare. Or, as it is stated in the bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, introduced the bill Friday. "This Act may be cited as the 'Obamacare Repeal Act,'" the bill states. And the bill uses just one sentence to do it. "Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act...

1. Deregulate the state exchanges, while capping subsidies. 2. Slowly shift Medicare patients into the exchanges. 3. Let more people buy insurance on their own rather than through their employer. 4. Move Medicaid patients into the exchanges. The result would be a more coherent system where more Americans would be buying health insurance on their own from private insurers competing hard for their business.

Most polls show that the Republicans will make gains in the House and Senate against the Democratic Party. For example, Dick Morris believes that “the Democratic Party is facing the biggest defeat in midterm elections in the past 110 years, perhaps surpassing the modern record of a 74-seat gain set in 1922″. But that does not measure the true variable of interest: the extent to which the grassroots political uprising can make changes to the structure of the system. Changing the structure of the system is an action some on the Left call treasonous. But the Left itself has worked...