Why Would Republicans Repeal What's Already Dying?

The alleged failure of Republicans to repeal the mis-named Affordable Care Act (ACA) predictably has the conservative punditry up in arms.  “Why Can't Republicans Get Anything Done?” was one of many frustrated headlines lamenting the GOP's lack of legislative success.  One editorial asserted that Republican failure to ‘do something' about the ACA “is one of the great political failures in recent U.S. history, and the damage will echo for years.” Really?

Implicit in all the conservative ranting about the need to repeal, or worse, fix the ACA, is that healthcare was a consumers' paradise before President Obama was elected.  Let's try to be serious for a moment.