In the initial years following Obamacare’s passage, Republicans remained solidly united on one crucial point: Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced, not “fixed.” But some Republicans and center-right pundits have since decided that trying to fix the president’s signature legislation is a good thing. Witness this advice from the Wall Street Journal editorial board.  The Journal calls for a “subsidies-for-deregulation deal” — whereby President Obama would get his subsidies turned back on if the Supreme Court turns them off, and in exchange, Republicans would agree to help make Obamacare better.

Referring to a proposal advanced in its own pages by Senator Ron Johnson, the Journal writes,