Calendarcare: One Way Out of GOP’s Health Care Mess
As 2025 wanes, and 2026 approaches, the calendar itself offers Republicans a partial solution to its health care woes.
Since Obamacare’s 2010 launch, the GOP has floundered while trying to repeal and replace the Democrats’ illegible scrawl of a signature issue. During President Donald Trump’s first term, Republicans junked the program’s individual-mandate penalty, a medical-device tax, and other noxious provisions. Alas, Obamacare survives. Hobbled, yes, but it’s still standing.
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