The Republicans had 7 years to come up with an alternative to Obamacare, and they failed. They voted dozens and dozens of times to repeal Obamacare, knowing those bills would be vetoed, and never bothered to come up with an actual replacement plan. A president who should be in his honeymoon weeks couldn’t get a bill through a Congress controlled by his own party, to fulfill one of his and their primary campaign promises. Trump owns this. Paul Ryan owns this. The entire Republican Party owns this. They don’t care about policy and they don’t understand policy and they don’t know how to govern. On every level, they failed.
But this was about more than the Republicans’ epic failure. This also was about the leadership of the Democratic Party. Democrats want to improve Obamacare, they don’t want to gut it and throw millions of people off health care coverage. And not one Democrat supported the Trump-Ryan-GOP disaster. Not one Democrat would have voted for it. Credit must be given to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic House Leadership. Credit must be given to the entire Democratic House Caucus.