Once Again, Health Care Proves to Be a Bitter Political Pill for G.O.P.

The inability to find a credible counter to the Affordable Care Act has long bedeviled Republicans and cost them at the polls. It’s threatening to do so again next year.“It’s a complicated issue, no doubt about it, a lot of moving parts and we have very different visions about what health care ought to look like,” Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, said.