Sue Scherwin - By whom? The GOP swept the House, Senate and White House on the promise that they would repeal Obamacare. You can check the polls, it was the number one reason voters gave for voting GOP in the last three election cycles. So, if the GOP votes to keep Obamacare, the voters (most of whom are being crushed by huge premium increases and loss of coverage as insurers leave the marketplace) will punish them in the next election.

Of course, if they vote for the American Health Care Act, which is basically Obama-lite that will speed the death spiral rather than stop it, the voters will punish them at the next election.

The only way the GOP wins on Obamacare is if they repeal it totally and either don't replace it (which the market will equalize the premiums fairly quickly) or replace it with something along the lines of Rand Paul's bill over in the Senate. GOP voters will NOT accept the continuation of Obamacare. They can't afford it and the GOP promised it would go away.