Reports of Obamacare repeal’s death are greatly exaggerated

Published August 3, 2017 9:00pm ET



President Trump recently tweeted, “Unless the Republican senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead!” He’s completely right that free-marketeers shouldn’t give up on health reform.

But if we’re being honest, none of the bills that the Senate considered last week would have come close to fulfilling the GOP’s 7-year-old promise to replace Obamacare with free-market healthcare.

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