No Republican Plan to Replace Obamacare ?

Forbes: The Impressive New Obamacare Replace Plan From Republicans Burr, Hatch, And Upton - Feb 5th 2015

RCP: House Republicans Unveil Obamacare Replacement - June 22nd 2016

Wash Post: Republicans have a plan to replace Obamacare - June 22nd 2016

• A refundable tax credit for Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance. This is somewhat similar to the Obamacare subsidies, but individuals would not be subject to income limits, would not be required to purchase insurance through an exchange and could purchase a wider variety of plans, including low-cost, low-benefit “mini-med” plans that have largely been phased out under Obamacare.  
• Expanding the use of private health savings accounts, or HSAs. Many Obamacare alternatives look to expand the use of high-deductible health plans paired with tax-free health savings accounts. That model, the GOP plan says, “helps patients understand the true cost of care, allows them to decide how much to spend, and provides them with the freedom to seek treatment at a place of their choosing.” 
• Allow insurance companies to charge young people less and older people more. Obamacare permits insurers to charge older subscribers no more than three times what they charge younger ones for the same plan in the same state. Republicans call that 3-to-1 ratio “unrealistic” and propose allowing a 5-to-1 ratio to better align premiums with costs.
• Funnel the costliest patients to subsidized “high-risk pools.” Obamacare’s mandates are meant to drive broad participation in the insurance market, so the premiums paid by a broad number of relatively healthy subscribers essentially subsidize care for the sickest. Without the mandates, many healthy Americans won’t buy insurance, forcing insurance companies to either deny coverage to sick customers or hike premiums to unsustainable levels. The GOP plan would solve that problem by establishing state-based “high-risk pools” for the sickest and directing $25 billion in federal support to them over 10 years.
• Restructuring Medicaid and Medicare. The plan includes Medicaid and Medicare reform proposals that have been circulating for years — most prominently, in the federal budgets Ryan proposed as House Budget Committee chairman. Medicaid funds would be handed to the states either as block grants or as per-capita allotments. Medicare, meanwhile, would move toward a “premium support” model where seniors would choose a private health plan, and Medicare would pay at least a portion of the premium. The plan does not describe cuts in coverage, but these proposals have been previously floated in the context of long-term federal spending reductions.

One of the biggest lies told by the Democrats in defense of the indefensible Affordable Health Care fiasco, otherwise known as Obamacare (or Obamacan't as it should be called), is that there is no plan to replace it. 

First, this is a ridiculous argument to even try to make. The Democrats effectively broke a healthy free market health care insurance industry by taking the control away from the experts who kept over ninety five percent of their clients happy, and handing it over to Washington bureaucrats who one might wonder how they even manage to dress themselves in the morning.  

But as a matter of partisan blindness, it's impossible for Democrats to actually allow themselves to grasp that the involvement of the Federal Government is the cause of the problem, not the potential cure. They continue to see any increase in Federal control (even that which screws things up) as progress. They fundamentally cannot accept the idea that the solution might be to bring us closer to the days when ninety five percent of the insured was happy, rather than double down on the government controlled market, where barely half are happy. 

In other words, the reason that this was a bad plan was not in the details, or the execution (although both were awful), the reason this was a bad plan was the overall concept of allowing Washington bureaucrats to control something as important as our health care insurance industry. There is quite literally "no such thing" as a good replacement plan that involves the concept of these same bureaucrats maintaining control. The problem is not with their job description, the problem is the job existing in the first place.

Once that reality has been established in your mind, you can then see that ideas like refundable tax credits to consumers, and more control to the industry experts, would provide solutions to the problems we can all acknowledge have been caused. Just because it does not embrace the nonsensical belief that every plan "must" include government control or it rolls back progress... doesn't mean you cannot call it a plan.  

So yes, Democrats, the GOP has a plan. It may not be the one you like. It may not be the one you want. But every bit of tangible empirical evidence suggests it's the one the country needs.