Obamacare, Hanging Around

EVERYONE KNEW that it would be difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare. After seven years of existence, its deeply entrenched, and it insures over twenty million people who would otherwise lack coverage. Besides, after seven years of wailing and gnashing, not only do the republicans not have a clear cut replacement other than tweaking what's already there, they can't seem to agree with what, precisely, to replace it. The hard core conservatives want to make the Affordable Care Act vanish entirely, and go back to an every man for himself approach, not surprisingly. Hence, disunity reigns within the Grand Old Party. Into the fray stalks Trump, petulantly proclaiming that unless the House passes a repeal and replace post haste, he's done dealing with it. And why not? He has an entire empire to manage, his own, and ours. Plus, Der Trumpster was once, long ago, a single payer advocate. Damned socialist. You just have this nagging feeling that if Big O had named it "Reagancare", there would be no problem, and all would be blissful. To conservatives, whatever has anything anything to do with Obama is poison because it has something to do with Obama. Obama doesn't help his own cause by having been born in Kenya, or maybe Mars, and having bugged Trump tower. Thus remains Obamacare, a fly in the conservative buttermilk, a gum on shoe sole which will....not....go away...