There’s No Plan B for Obamacare Repeal

Published March 10, 2017 10:00am ET



The White House continues to argue that the House Republican health-care bill is the best and only way to repeal Obamacare. “No matter where you are, especially on the conservative side, you cannot possibly believe that the current health care system is an effective program,” said press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday.

Spicer’s implication, and the White House’s view, is that the American Health Care Act (or is it Trumpcare? Ryancare?) is an effective response to an ineffective health-care regime. When I asked Spicer what the administration’s “Plan B” is if this bill fails, he responded that “Plan A” is all there is and all that’s needed.

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