At times, congressional Republican leaders sound like MBA professors trying to teach their students the right buzzwords to understand the nation’s health-care system. Several of them talk about “buckets” for understanding the process for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. One lawmaker described the 2010 health law as a collapsing “bridge” in need of a “rescue team” to come in and build more “bridges.”If you can’t understand buckets or bridges, maybe the health-care “backpack” is your thing. Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal ObamacareServe up a pop quiz on any complex issue to your average member of Congress, and the results might be frightening. “God, we all ran on the repeal of Obamacare, what is wrong?”Maybe things will get smoother if they just settle on buckets, bridges or backpacks.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2017 00:47 UTC