Today's Health Care Post

A lot of Republicans seem to have convinced themselves that Obamacare is doomed and they're going to replace it with a Republican plan. I think this is the same way that not long ago, the same folks convinced themselves that Obama was doomed and they were going to replace him with Mitt Romney.

I think they've also fooled themselves into believing there is a Republican plan. There are a lot of Republican ideas about how to fix health insurance in this country. Some are barely band-aids. Some are actually in the Affordable Care Act. But none of them really address the problems of poor folks and those with pre-existing conditions, and none of the ideas have been whipped into any sort of shape to be implemented except in a drawn-out, piecemeal process. They're more like theories than proposals. Politifact has a rundown of them.

I still say you can't beat something with nothing, and the G.O.P. is still trying to "repeal and replace" without the "replace" part. I also think that Americans understand if you have a new product and you try to market it through a website and the website doesn't work so well…that doesn't mean the product itself is flawed.