If Republicans sweep '14 and '16...

[Person Man]

Really...what can and will they do about the Affordable Care Act? Its kind of a 4 legged stool between the subsidies, the exchanges, the bans of caps and preexisting conditions and the mandate. Further, by the time there is a Republican president by 2017, we would have had three more enrollment period and maybe another 22 million people signed up. At that rate, a majority of the uninsured will be signed up. 

Then question is then- How will the Republican sell cancelling the insurance of 30 million people and how will they sell the continuation of then almost a decade of regulatory uncertainty?  This is very similar to the Iraq War debate. Most people in principle wanted it, the President acted with most of his political capital and then was stuck defending it for most of the rest of his time support of it went from 60% in principle to 40% in reality as it become protracted. Bush at first was politically immune from the attacks in the 2004 election while they were able to slowly chip away at Obama's power.  However, by the start of year 7, both of their policies and their parties were unpopular. The main issue forward was an "exit strategy", do we "pull the troops"? Or do they just skirt by and implement their own policies such as tort immunity, allowing pharmacists and nurses to practice limited forms of medicine and allow insurance companies to sell the same policies nation-wide?

 Obama eventually did pull the troops but eventually half the void got filled with a powerful pretender. Will the Republican Senate and President have issues with "pulling the troops" on Obmacare? And if so, would this make future democrats lame ducks on health care for the remainder of the first half of the 21st century, would they push to implement or would they push for some sort of full measure?