“To be honest, we don’t really care what’s in the bill, as long as we can call it an Obamacare replacement, and it passes. We need to look like strong, competent leaders, and we want to move on to tax cuts for wealthy people. If some people, including our supporters, get hurt, they’ll get over it–where else are they going to go?” (Trump, Reactionaries, and PBPs)
“Obamacare is the spawn of the devil. It is an unjustified intrusion of the federal government into private business and individual choices. It must be eliminated in its entirety. Let markets rule and freedom reign!” (Conservative Libertarians, a/k/a the Freedom Caucus)
“Gee, throwing millions of people off their insurance, or giving them “insurance” that is actually worthless, doesn’t sound like a great idea to us, particularly since Clinton won our districts in 2016. We weren’t elected to make people’s lives worse.” (Christian Democrats)
And so, there is a guaranteed majority of Republicans in favor of any bill that purports to be an Obamacare replacement, but not enough votes to pass the House, let alone the Senate. Both CL and CD votes are necessary to get to 216 and 51. So far, no luck with that.