They've had over 6 years to come up with a plan

[SHRED]

Now they say they need a few more years to come up with an ACA replacement?

And the media just let's them get away with saying this without confronting them as to why there isn't a plan now.

[gratuitous]

1. It's the lack of media pushback that galls me

Obedient reporting of the Republican line, yet absolutely no indication that the Republicans don't have a replacement plan, despite having years to come up with one. I'd be okay with "It's understandable that Republicans didn't repeal the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration, as it faced a certain veto. But during all that time of wheel-spinning, Republicans failed to craft a replacement for the ACA."

Doesn't that seem like a rather obvious question to pose to Speaker Ryan when he's gassing on about repealing "Obamacare"?

[CrispyQ]

2. It's a toss up what galls me the most.

The GOP hypocrisy or the media's complacency. Fair & balanced. Both sides do it.

[procon]

3. As a cheap stage prop, no one is supposed to notice it was a hollow shell. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

4. What media? I was just listening to an NPR piece slamming them, and...

have seen plenty of things in The New Yorker, NY Times, Atlantic and other places slamming them.

However, it is not he media's job to take sides on every issue or hold the public's hands. They report, and if you can't figure it out, too bad.

It is the propagandist who tells us what to think.

[Warpy]

5. It would kill them to admit it, but "Obamacare" IS their plan

The Heritage Foundation came up with it some decades ago and Obama submitted it to Congress with few alterations. They have no other plan except to put us back where we were, health care unaffordable to all but the 0.1% at the top. They have no ideas, they've all been tried and failed. Their only option is to maximize paper profits for the already rich by gutting their own damn plan.

[Snarkoleptic]

6. Let's be fair, now....

The DO have a plan, and Alan Grayson laid it out-

[Skittles]

7. they don't give a DAMN about the American People

OF COURSE there is no plan

THEY WERE FINE WITH WHAT WE HAD - or should I say WHAT WE DIDN'T HAVE - *BEFORE*

[moondust]

8. 60+ failed attempts to kill it.

It's not like they didn't get around to considering it. Were they too busy holding repeal votes to think of something to replace it?

It's much, much easier for a gang of juvenile sociopaths to destroy a hospital than it is for them to build one even if they have the know-how--which they don't.