TY - JOUR T1 - The Republicans go over the cliff: the losing case to replace Obamacare JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 312 LP - 312 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X691421 VL - 67 IS - 660 AU - John Frey Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/660/312.abstract N2 - After opposing healthcare reform and Obamacare for 8 years, like the dog that finally caught the car, the Republicans realised they had to propose an actual bill instead of just vetoing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). They took a month to come up with ‘America’s Health Care Act’ and managed to alienate almost everyone in the Republican Party as well as most of the country, particularly those in the Republican-voting rural and Southern regions. The bill was pulled even before having a vote in the House of Representatives. A headline during that fiasco said, ‘Middle-schooler who wrote G.O.P. Health-Care Bill claims he has not been paid.’1 Then, after ignominiously failing to even get a vote from their own party, the Republicans began talking with each other again and came up with a … ER -