well Ed, you're sorta right. It seems that once President Obama accepted the conservative mandate cons couldn't come up with enough ideas fast enough. The problem is that their "ideas"
1 cost more than Obamacare
2 covered fewer people than Obamacare
3 were obviously floated only to kill Obamacare.
And ed, since I numbered them I don't have to back them up. But alas, I'm not a con, I'll back them up. this addresses 1 & 2
"The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 billion more than the Republican plan. And amazingly, the Democratic bill has already been through three committees and a merger process. It's already been shown to interest groups and advocacy organizations and industry stakeholders. It's already made its compromises with reality. It's already been through the legislative sausage grinder. And yet it saves more money and covers more people than the blank-slate alternative proposed by John Boehner and the House Republicans. The Democrats, constrained by reality, produced a far better plan than Boehner, who was constrained solely by his political imagination and legislative skill."
Ezra Klein - Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
What proves my point #3 is that republicans have voted 40 times (yes 40 times) to repeal Obamacare. Not replace, repeal.