Maybe Democrats and Republicans Aren't So Far Apart

For years after Obamacare was enacted in 2010, Republicans ran campaigns viciously attacking the law and famously promising to repeal and replace it. Yet in 2017, when they finally captured all three lawmaking arms of the federal government, they failed three times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Thus far, they’ve managed to eliminate only one piece of the law — the tax penalty for people who don’t buy medical insurance, a measure of debatable significance — as a way to help finance their big tax cut.

Now Democrats are promising to repeal and replace the Republican tax overhaul that eliminated that health-care measure. By the look it, their efforts may be nearly as modest.