Contrast the views of a few Alaskan GOP "Leadership" with the opinions of the comments on this article and you can see why our country is in so much trouble. Ever since the voters in Alaska smote Joe Miller with the jaw bone of an ass the GOP leadership has worried that they have "lost control" of a minion.
Fully 51% of GOP voters DO NOT KNOW that the ACA they are using and " Obama Care" are one and the same. Trump says he loves the uneducated voter, this is why, it's so much easier to pull the wool over their eyes and give tax breaks to his donor's.
This vote failed for the exact reasons that the GOP has accused the ACA of for 7 years, done in secret, find out what is in it when it passes.
When the few "leaders" (not elected by the people in general) run the country their way that sounds like a dictatorship. That is even worse than the dread "socialism" we are told to fear.
America has a history of crushing, Natives, Irish, Italians, Blacks, Labor Unions, Latinos... not winning.