Quote:Trump and his Republican cohorts campaigned on the promise that they would repeal and replace Obamacare, in Trump's words, "very very quickly."   Then, when he got elected, he said it would be by the end of the first week.   Now, Trump says it may get repealed and replaced by next year. 

 

Apparently, the Affordable Care Act is not as bad as they said it was.  Otherwise, they'd just repeal it.  Right? 

 

Well it's actually pretty good policy on the President Trump administration to be patient and ease the transition.  It's no surprise that it will take some time, and it all depends on how you interpret "very, very quickly".

 

First of all, consider that Obamacare is legislation that is thousands of pages long, the key word being legislation.  In order to change legislation it has to go through Congress which could take weeks or even months to do.  Then it goes back to the President where he will either sign it into law or veto it.

 

Unlike the way democrats rammed the thousands of pages of the Obamacare legislation through without due process (we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it), it appears that repealing and replacing parts of the legislation will actually happen through due process in a bipartisan way.

---