MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered Republicans for trying, once again, to destroy the Affordable Care Act without a plan to replace it.
The "Morning Joe" host said the situation revealed Republicans had simply run out of ideas, even after a decade to come up with some sort of plan.
"Republicans have been attacking Obamacare now for a decade -- a decade," Scarborough said. "They've had no response to Obamacare for a decade. Now we have a president, the head of their party, saying we're not going to even have a plan to replace Obamacare by the time you guys go to vote next November. It's really -- it's staggering how bereft of ideas this party is."
House Republicans voted dozens of times during the Obama administration to repeal the health care reform law, and the American Health Care Act championed by President Donald Trump famously flopped in the Senate, but MSNBC contributor Steve Rattner the GOP still hasn't learned its lesson.
"Now he's saying we have no plan, we'll have a plan sometimes after 2020," Rattner said. "Every poll says this is the most important issue. (Trump) obviously doesn't have a plan because he can't have a plan. There is no Republican plan anywhere within the Republican ecosystem that would satisfy Republicans' views of how health care should be implemented and still protect Americans, not just against pre-existing conditions, but have insurance altogether."
"They're trying to play a game with the American voters of kicking the can past the election and fool Americans that they have never had a plan, and never will have a plan that people will like," he added.
