After six years of railing against President Obama's health care policy, House Republicans have finally presented their own plan.  

If it sounds odd that the group that voted more than 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act never actually had a replacement planned, then you clearly aren't familiar enough with U.S. politics. 

By unveiling the new plan, Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to make good on the pledge he made when he took the helm of the House GOP caucus last year to recast the party as one of ideas, rather than as simply a "Party of No" bitterly opposed to the president.  

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