This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, March 27th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The American Health Care Act was pulled from consideration last week in the House,

so Obamacare remains the law of the

land what should Congress be focused on and what does health insurance look

like in the coming years without repeal Michael Cannon director of health

policy studies at the Cato Institute, explains.

For seven years, Republicans have been promising that they would repeal and replace Obamacare.

And this has become an article of faith, a tenant adopted by every elected official on the federal

level.

They've all promised that they would do this.

They won elections in 2010 and 2014 and 2016 on this promise.

And when it came time to put together legislation

to deliver on that promise, the House leadership

decided they would not. They decided that they would repeal only

parts of Obamacare retain major portions of the law however, including its most

significant portions and even when they purported to

repeal things like the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, that was really repeal in name

only. The dynamics that this bill would have set in motion would have prevented the Medicaid expansion from ever going away.

And so a lot of conservatives were upset about this and they took their concerns to the leadership and to the White House.

There were all these negotiations and finally the Conservatives said we can't vote for this.

And the Trump administration and the House leadership decided

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