Amazingly candid quote from a GOP aide on the Hill who works the health care portfolio on why it’s so hard for Republicans to craft an alternative to Obamacare, via TPM’s Sahil Kapur:
As far as repeal and replace goes, the problem with replace is that if you really want people to have these new benefits, it looks a hell of a lot like the Affordable Care Act. … To make something like that work, you have to move in the direction of the ACA. You have to have a participating mechanism, you have to have a mechanism to fund it, you have to have a mechanism to fix parts of the market.
