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Republicans have been vowing to destroy Obamacare and replace it with, in the words of the incoming Oval Office Occupant, "something terrific." But after years and years of vowing to come up with a better system, they still have no idea what that something will be. As Jonathan Chait notes, anything that would be as good as Obamacare (let alone better) would do all the same things that they find so loathsome about Obamacare…except that Obama wouldn't get the credit for it.

This would almost be funny except for the possibility of so many people suffering and dying in the transition process to whatever we wind up with. It'll probably be something called Trumpcare, which will be Obamacare with a coat of cheap gold paint and massive increases in the deficit.