 Trump isn't the reason that Republicans haven't been able to repeal and replace Obamacare. All of the lies they've told are. (Evan Vucci/AP) By Matt O'Brien President Trump didn't know that health care could be so complicated, or whether, as he's alternately described it, his own party's plan was either "terrific" or "mean," or that it was on the verge of collapse this past weekend while he was watching nine hours of golf. But it's still not his fault the Republican health-care effort fell apart. This isn't just true according to Trump's internal logic that he deserves credit for good things that have only happened in his imagination but not blame for bad things that have happened in real life. It is actually true. Trump isn't the reason that Republicans haven't been able to repeal and replace Obamacare. All of the lies they've told are. But first let's set the scene. After over seven years of railing against Obamacare, Republicans this week finally thought they'd figured out what they needed to replace it: two more years to decide on a health-care plan of their own. That, at least, is what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell basically said after the GOP's latest health-care bill couldn't muster the 50 votes it needed to just come up for debate in the Senate. So instead of trying to repeal and replace Obamacare all at once, they would settle for repealing it today and seeing what they could come up with in some distant tomorrow. But it didn't take long for them to find out they didn't have the votes for this either. Which is to say that they couldn't even agree on having a plan to have a plan. They're one level away from that. They only have a plan to have a plan to have a plan. Why haven't they been able to do better than this? Well, when they were out of power, Republicans didn't really bother with health-care policy because they didn't want it to get in the way of their health-care politics.
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