The Republican congressional leadership has been nominally–but sometimes it seems only nominally–committed to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a conservative alternative. Now one of the two leading candidates for House majority leader—the number-two position in leadership—is Dr. Tom Price, who has probably done more to advance the cause of repeal than any other single member of the 114th Congress.

This spring, Price released an Obamacare alternative that Bill Kristol called “the strongest Obamacare alternative offered in Congress to date.”  Price’s legislation was based on the “Winning Alternative to Obamacare,” a proposal from the 2017 Project (which Kristol and I co-founded).  It currently has 79 co-signers—including Jeb Hensarling, Marsha Blackburn, and Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman Bill Flores—and has gained the attention of numerous Republican presidential candidates.  Moreover, this is hardly new terrain for Price, who put out his first Obamacare alternative even before Obamacare was passed.