Ah, but it is! As I mentioned in the OP: By abandoning every single piece of the ACA the Republicans aren't just ditching the big-ticket items I mentioned above, they're also abandoning numerous provisions originally pitched in Republican health care bills over the last 3 years (indeed, the language from those Republican bills was explicitly copied and pasted into the ACA on some occasions), as well as pieces that were new in the ACA but already endorsed by the Republican party.
Numerous Republican ideas were put into the affordable care act. Their legislative language on tort reform, their desire to allow health insurers to sell across state lines, their goal of making high deductible plans more prevalent, etc.
They've pretended there's nothing in there they like (certainly not the bulk of their own health agenda!), but in reality they know that even by their own standards "some of Obamacare is pretty good."
Some of it. Not the part that ended two college funds....or the part that forces churches to pay for birth control.....or the part that will end up forcing insurance companies out of business by raising the minimum amount they have to have on hand to pay only benefits......or the mandates.......etc.
I figure if they remove about 2200 pages it might be a good bill.
This is the problem is that goons like you think birth control more health benifits or making it so people cant game the system are bad things
Learn how to spell before you start calling other folks goons.