John Boehner predicted in February 2017 that "Repeal & Replace" would ultimately fail.

[DetlefK]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/john-boehner-obamacare/index.html

Former House Speaker John Boehner threw cold water Thursday on the prospect of congressional Republicans following through on their pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

"They'll fix Obamacare," the former Ohio congressman predicted at a conference hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in Orlando, Florida. "I shouldn't have called it repeal and replace because that's not what's going to happen. They're basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it."

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"This is not all that hard to figure out, except this: In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever one time agreed on what a healthcare proposal should look like. Not once," Boehner said.

He said lawmakers were too confident in how easy they thought the process would go.

"All this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal -- yeah we'll do replace, replace -- I started laughing because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault. You broke it."

Boehner said he warned GOP leaders about repealing Obamacare without a replacement ready because the members "will never ever agree what the bill should be."

"Perfect always becomes the enemy of the good," he added.

Boehner also predicted that some of the fundamental pieces of the health care law would remain in place, including coverage for children up to age 26 and for those with pre-existing conditions. "Most of the Affordable Care Act, the framework, is going to stay there."

[MyOwnPeace]

1. John "Boner!"

Yeah, that's what I used to call him - and I hated the sight of him (another "orange" man!).

Well, he's on another list of mine right now: "People I Thought I'd Never Miss!"