OPINION

Why anti-Obamacare crusade was bound to fail

News, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 28/07/2017

» Since the United States' Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- or "Obamacare" -- was enacted in 2010, Republicans have been promising to "repeal and replace" it. When the 2016 presidential and congressional elections delivered all three branches of the US government to the party, the time to fulfill that promise seemed to have arrived. Yet the anti-Obamacare crusade has just been dealt a crushing blow, owing to the refusal of some Republican senators to vote for the replacement legislation.