As 2025 wanes, and 2026 approaches, the calendar itself offers Republicans a partial solution to its health care woes.

Since Obamacare’s 2010 launch, the GOP has floundered while trying to repeal and replace the Democrats’ illegible scrawl of a signature issue. During President Donald Trump’s first term, Republicans junked the program’s individual-mandate penalty, a medical-device tax, and other noxious provisions. Alas, Obamacare survives. Hobbled, yes, but it’s still standing. 

Free-market think tanks have performed admirably throughout this effort. They proposed and analyzed countless alternatives. Individual lawmakers embraced many of these ideas and advocated their own reforms.

Regardless, Republicans have failed to rally around and pass any single substitute to Obamacare.

New York’s Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats shut down the federal government for 43 days—to save illegal-alien health care and Obamacare subsidies.

On Dec. 11, they torpedoed a plan by Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Crapo of Idaho to replace Democrat subsidies with deposits in Health Savings Accounts. Republicans, earlier, scuttled Schumer’s three-year subsidy extension. For its part, the GOP House struggled this week to prescribe its own cure to the persistent Obamacare infection. 

This is where the calendar becomes helpful.

The months from January through........

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