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GOP wants to repeal&replace Obamacare, but wants to keep the name to keep bashing it.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/gop-rep-rodney-davis-claims-republicans-fixed-health-care-bill-by-changing-a-period-to-a-semicolon/“Our bill is simply that, it’s a fix,” Davis insisted. “In Washington, when we repeal any law, we do something as simple as replace it with other language. So we have repealed and replaced. But in essence, that’s all a fix that happens on every bill that we pass in Washington.”
“Even if it’s something as simple as changing a period to a semicolon,” he continued. “That’s repealing that period and replacing it with a semicolon, thus fixing the bill. So, we have fixed it.”
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See? They are fixing Obamacare by replacing it with a radically different bill.
So, if something goes wrong with their healthcare-policy, they can point fingers and blame the no-longer-existing Obamacare.