The Republicans are having a difficult time repealing Obumblercare precisely because it guarantees coverage for pre-existing conditions, and subsidizes older people by forcing younger people to pay for coverages they don't want or need at rates that are much more than they would have to pay under the previous insurance market. But the biggest problem - and this is why McStains, Collins and Murkowski won't go along - is Medicaid for all. The federal government picks up the tab for expanded coverage for the first 5 years of Obumblercare, through 2018. It's a good deal for those 31 states that went for it and is the proximate cause for the the intransigence of those three RINOs. When the states have to fund Medicaid for all in their budgets is when the rubber will hit the road, next year, 2018. Then maybe, just maybe the Dems will participate in the replacement process.