Meantime the republicans have now tried, and failed, to repeal Obamacare for the third time in a year. With congressional phone lines tied up by callers, angry protestors and politicians afraid to hold town-halls each time. Eight years they spent promising to do this - and apparently in all that time, not once did any of them think to sit down and figure out just what exactly they would do instead.
Now they find themselves very much like the dog that caught the car - and have no idea what to do with it. The best of them, John McCain, refuses to play along with their 'lets have a law without debate' crap.  Susan Collins is pretty much the only one who thinks killing millions of people may not be a good idea for a government. Everyone of those bills included huge cuts to medicaid -Trump specifically promised on the campaign that he would not sign any bill that cut medicaid.