The repeal, limited to a few aspects of Obamacare, was yet another ploy in the GOP's seven-year quest to undo the last president's most notable accomplishment. A health care plan needs to have universal participation in order to spread the financial burden among the widest possible population of the insured, lowering premium costs for everyone. Up to 16 million Americans would have been left without insurance by 2026 under this now defeated Republican scheme. The "skinny" repeal was really an obvious attempt to salvage some type of achievement for a political party whose ideas were otherwise light-weight.