GOP’s Delayed-Repeal Obamacare Plan Faces Major Obstacles
- Republicans aim to create ‘cliff’ to help deal on replacement
- Trump has made repealing law one of his highest priorities
Pedro Rojas holds a sign directing people to an insurance company where they can sign up for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, before the February 15th deadline on February 5, 2015 in Miami, Florida.
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Republicans are coalescing around a plan to quickly pass next year a delayed repeal of Obamacare to give them two or three years to craft an alternative.
But that plan, designed to create a “cliff” that according to lawmakers and aides would push Congress to get its act together, comes with significant perils.