Health-Law Backers Target Key Republican Lawmakers

Some senators are leery of repealing the Affordable Care Act without a new plan lined up

 .. The “repeal and delay” strategy, as critics call it, has emerged because Republicans haven’t coalesced behind a single proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, with divisions largely about how ambitious to be in reworking the law.
.. GOP leaders hope a repeal and looming expiration date would pressure Democrats to get behind a Republican-crafted plan.
.. Mr. Alexander, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and will play a big role in the debate, has been using the phrase “replace and then repeal”—reversing ACA opponents’usual slogan—to sum up his position.