Where’s the Republican’s health-care plan?

Demonstrators hold up placards during a protest against Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory, at City Hall in Portland on November 11, 2016. PHOTO | FILE

What you need to know:

  • Only one problem: There is no plan. Republicans have hundreds of ideas but no replacement plan and no consensus. So now the same politicians who couldn’t come up with a serious plan in six years are considering a new idea: repeal now and replace later. Use the arcane rules of a “reconciliation” bill to push through repeal; replacement plan to come later.