The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has previously estimated that repeal-without-replace would cause 32 million people to lose coverage.
The damage that a repeal-without-replace plan would inflict was too much for Collins, Shelley Moore Capito, and Lisa Murkowski, who said that they would vote against bringing any such bill to the floor.
President Trump, however, supports pursuing repeal without replacement.
These health insurance gains would be reversed if the ACA is repealed without a comprehensive replacement.
It will be recalled that section 216 was one of the two statutes repealed without replacement.
Parliament would not have voted the repeal without this assertion of its authority.
Governance is forcing Republicans to confront the reality that repeal without replacement is untenable.
"I do not favor repeal without there being a replacement in place," he said.
CBO scored repeal without a replacement - it's a humanitarian disaster of incomprehensible scale.
Public support for repeal is low, and support for repeal without a replacement is in the basement.
