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Republicans are the Keystone Cops of health care

The Republicans have been trying to repeal Obamacare for the past seven years. They sent message bills to President Obama for him to veto continually. In all this time, you would think they would be trying to get their act together and find a plan that they can replace the Affordable Care Act with.

Now when they control all three branches of the government, they seem to be starting from square one. They don’t have one single plan that they can all agree on. It’s like watching the Keystone Cops.

They are finding that it’s easy to be armchair quarterbacks and criticize what others have done, but they don’t seem to have any ideas of their own that will work for the American public.

Gene Kliewer, Clovis

This story was originally published April 9, 2017 at 3:15 PM with the headline "Republicans are the Keystone Cops of health care."

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