Foreigners COVERED

Republicans were outflanked when Obama chose a conservative, market-based plan similar to one they had supported for many years. That didn't stop them, though, from dishonestly calling it socialized medicine. So they can't very well move to the right to replace it without cruelly throwing millions of their own base off their health insurance plans and returning us to the good old days when insurance companies routinely screwed their customers. And they'd rather chew out their own kidneys than move to the left, toward single-payer. So they're boxed in, and it's their own fault. Obamacare isn't perfect by a long shot but it's a damn sight better than what we had. So now Republicans are reduced to just desperately hoping their base forgets the whole 'repeal and replace' thing.