Of course it's going to be very difficult to replace. It wasn't intended to work in the first place. It was designed to fail and then lead to a complete single payer system. I don't know how you go about replacing it without causing a mess.

 

I think the way you do it is be brutally honest and tell them 20 million just isn't that many people out of 350 million. For 5.5% (many of whom are simply sponges and not incapable) of the population Obamacare has been a godsend. For other rest of the vast majority of the population it has been a massive money suck. 

 

Of course being honest like that would be very unpopular and be terrible optics, but hey the truth hurts. 

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