Unlike ObamaCare, the Republican Plan Will Work  Unlike
ObamaCare, the Republican Plan Will Work April 6, 2013  Benjamin
Domenech   Ezra Klein has a lengthy piece taking apart my  post
from last July concerning the media’s oft-repeated “Republicans
Have No  Obamacare Replacement” myth.  I’m glad he’s engaged on
this point, because I think it’s a sign of  seriousness and a
positive development to have debates about what comes
after Obamacare – because make no mistake, something will come
after it – and the  discussion has been a long time coming.  The
essential premise of Ezra’s piece is that Republicans have no
plan for  replacing Obamacare because none of the Republican
plans does the same things  Obamacare does, at least on paper.
In other words, to qualify as an Obamacare replacement, your
plan has to accomplish pretty much the same thing, with pretty
much the same methods. This strikes me as a bit of a game,
especially given the  conflation of ends and means: if I replace
my Ford with a Honda, do I still