For the past six years, no law has served as a larger GOP whipping post – and rightfully so – than the disastrous Affordable Care Act, and the Republican sweep Tuesday of political Washington has imperiled the ACA’s expansive and damaging reach.

During the final week of his campaign, President-elect Trump vowed to repeal the 2010 health-care law so quickly that he might summon Congress into a special session to accomplish the task. “We will do it, and we will do it very, very quickly. It is a catastrophe,” he said.

 

Yet shortly after dawn Wednesday, a top Republican Senate spokesman said the chamber had not yet formulated its strategy for the coming session. In recent years, the GOP-led House has voted more than five dozen times to rescind the ACA, and Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., returned to that point late Wednesday morning when he described the law as “collapsing under its own weight.”... Read More: Matzav