The GOP's best solution on health care

[Nym90]

The best thing the GOP could probably do at this point would be to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something almost exactly identical, but with a few minor tweaks/improvements.

That way, they could announce that they had fulfilled their promise to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something else, without actually causing major disruption and chaos in the health care industry and throwing 20 million Americans off health insurance.

Their base, which cares more about slogans/appearances than actual policies, would be mollified that
they had kept their promise and that the evil no-good, very bad thing that is Obamacare is dead and replaced by something "better".

When the media and Democrats try to point out the similarities, Trump can just go on Twitter and say that the "very dishonest media" is lying and that Obamacare was a "disaster" and that Trumpcare is "fantastic" and very different. And he can spend the next four years taking the credit for having saved the US health care system.

[Nym90]

I was half-joking. You're right that it probably wouldn't pass.

But politically, it's the only way I can see them possibly both technically keeping their promise and not causing themselves a catastrophe.