Conservative Health Experts Wonder How To Coexist With Obamacare

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR – APRIL 9, 2014, 11:08 AM EDT

While Republican lawmakers aren't flinching in their quest to repeal Obamacare, conservative health wonks are more introspective in the wake of rising enrollment and evidence that the law -- though it still faces many challenges -- appears unlikely to collapse.

What should the party do if the Affordable Care Act survives?

For one, numerous conservative policy minds stress that Republicans need to coalesce around an alternative if they want the upper hand in the health care debate.

"As it becomes clear to opponents that the law is not going to implode on its own, they'll have to come up with proposals to replace it when they have the power," wrote National Review's senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru in a column for Bloomberg View. "Replacement plans should make sure to include an amnesty for anyone who runs afoul of" the tax penalty for not buying insurance.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Good luck with that...

All of their proposals so far, at least the bare bones efforts at them with no actual details included we've seen, neither improve the situation nor decrease suffering.

When you shine a light on their proposals, they fade into transparency as more profit taking. Much of the ACA sucks, but it sucks less than what we had pre-Obamacare. Going back is going to take some hard sell, and that is hard to describe. Improving anything but profits for their donors is not in their DNA.

[area51]

2. How will conservatives coexist with "Obamacare"?

Very easily; it's a completely republican-created plan. It's the bastard child of the Heritage Foundation and Newt Gingrich.

[daybranch]

3. maybe Republicans can propose something that would be better

Oops, I forgot again. Public Option, Single Payer, and Medicare for all ideas are already taken by various Democrats.