There's always been a plan to replace it with the only economically viable plan that can reduce the cost of healthcare. The same plan Dr. Ben Carson has been talking about for years.
It's the only solution proposed by anyone from either party that would work.
Yes. Along party lines. Why do you think every Republican voted against the conservative think-tank produced healthcare bill? I certainly have my theory...
Yes. Carson introduced that "plan" in 2015, right? Why do you reckon Republicans have not pushed it forward once in over the past 10 years despite twice controlling all parts of the federal government? Because it's D.O.A. flawed.
It does what basically every other non-starter contemporary Republican health insurance idea does: willfully misunderstands how health insurance works to appeal to rich healthy folks whose costs will be reduced at the expense of the poor sick saps who inevitably will die as a result. It's a straightforwardly eugenicist plan that would make Ebenezer Scrooge blush.
Controlling is not the same as filibuster proof majority (as we just saw with the shutdown), which is what it would take to do this.
Why did every Republican vote against it? Because it was terrible legislation that nobody even got to read before voting on it. As Pelosi famously said, "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."
And the reason that you didn't get single payer is because you didn't have support for single payer among Democrats, who did hold a filibuster proof majority.
This idea that the ACA, Obama's signature legislation is some how a conservative push is not based in reality. It's a talking point to give it the appearance of bipartisan legislation, which it is not.
The Heritage Foundation influences were from a 1989 proposal that talked about the an individual mandate and health insurance exchanges. The Heritage Foundation itself has gone as far as to totally disavow any association to the ACA.
Ben Carson has been talking about a variety of half baked plans for years. He has gone back and forth over and over on who is funding the health savings accounts, what he plans to do with medicare and medicaid, etc. None of these ever-shifting plans have ever been able to answer all of the questions, which is why they are ever shifting.
Senate: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2009/s396
House: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h165
There's always been a plan to replace it with the only economically viable plan that can reduce the cost of healthcare. The same plan Dr. Ben Carson has been talking about for years.
It's the only solution proposed by anyone from either party that would work.