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I've been saying for years that Obamacare will never be "repealed and replaced," but it will have to be fundamentally fixed, and that fix will inevitably have to be bipartisan.

But with the developments of the past week, I learned something new: Trump and the Republican leadership are ideologically closer to most Democrats than they are to their own far right wing in the House and Senate.

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I call support for giving insurance companies the ability to sell insurance across state lines the cockroach proposal.

As bad as it is, you just can't kill the damn thing!

Last night, President Trump once again listed this idea in his address to Congress as one of his health care talking points.

Here is a post about the idea I published on this blog a year ago in the midst of the Republican

This is an op-ed that I authored in USA Today��two years ago.

Wouldn't change a word of it:

Rethink 'repeal and replace': Column
Robert Laszewski
7:29 PM ET January 14, 2015

Obey health care customers, not political orthodoxy, when proposing Obamacare fixes

The Republicans seem determined to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. They simply cannot bring themselves to consider fixing what they