Just 12 months ago, it would have been unthinkable for Republicans to come out in public weakening their opposition to Obamacare. The first GOP presidential primary candidate to say so, it seemed then, would be tarred, feathered, and dragged through the streets.
But the idea of keeping Obamacare, or a system quite like it, is no longer heresy in the ideologically moderate Trump Republican Party. And it appears that a significant number of Republican officeholders, having seen Trump shockingly carry Midwestern states that no one thought he could win, have become emboldened to let their pale pastels show, at least on this key issue. As Bloomberg reports, Republicans are now dialing back their rhetoric, saying they wanted to “repair” the healthcare law rather than “repeal” or “replace” it.
