In Obamaland, getting a deal is what's important. You can't walk away - ever. Even if the deal ends up going strongly against you and your objectives, the Obama policy was a bad deal is better than no deal at all. For example the Iranian Nuclear Deal was a really bad deal but Obama did it anyway. That was Trump's big criticism: "We make stupid deals."
By contract, Trump knows "when to fold 'em" and he is willing to walk away from a deal that wasn't shaping up as a good deal. No use wasting more time on it: the "it" being Repeal and Replace Obamacare. Ridding us of Obamacare will take care of itself. It is unsustainable and is imploding anyway.
The effort to repeal and replace was noble but unnecessary. Though most of the attention is being given to the failure of Trump and the Republicans, what is being overlooked is that not a single Democrat voted to try to fix the mess they created - not one. Nor have they proposed any legislation to help fix it.
Why Congress, Democrats and Republicans, continue to insist on "all at once; all or nothing" legislation is baffling to me. Grand schemes can lead to grand successes but most often they end in spectacular failures. The best guarantor of success is a methodical series of well thought out steps. For fixing healthcare, Congress should add provisions to secure our healthcare system such as allowing health insurance to be purchased across state lines, medical savings accounts and medical tort reform. Then once the general system has a new set of supports, they can knock out the failing pillars supporting the crumbling, burdensome and fatally flawed Obamacare system.
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