messaging on this. it s going to be very hard to push repeal of this bill now that there are so many people who are actually getting benefits from the bill. one of the reasons there was so much talk about repeal and stopping this thing and the government shutdown and everything that we went through was they had to sort of stop this bill before it became an active part of american life. and now it is part of american life, makes it much more difficult to go to people who are getting insurance for the first time and say we want to take that insurance away. so republicans are trying to build some kind of message they have of their own of some alternative, but that runs into the problem of in the gop itself, having their own problem working as a cohesive unit as a party. there s a lot of infighting going on, a lot of people on one side or the other. they need to resolve those problems. then maybe they can create an alternative health care plan and try to use that as an election cudgel. but