text: No, which is why is has to be repealed FIRST.  Only then will both parties be leveraged into working together to try to come up with a bipartisan plan.
  
  This repeal+replace in one step was doomed from the very start.  I never understood why they even went down that path.  We all know that ZERO Dem yes votes would be available as long as Obamacare remained intact.  Given that reality, giving Dems even more chances to demagogue it was counterproductive.  But again, I think repeal+replace in a single step was an impossible task to begin with.  Hopefully now they've realized that (and perhaps that's why they went through this exercise - to get people to realize it).  
  
  The ONLY chance of substantial reform is to lock in the pending repeal of Obamacare FIRST.  Once that's locked in, only then does the leverage increase for both side to come up with something new.