Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013)

President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.”

Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound — but the president hasn’t shown interest in them. He has instead remained devoted to his eponymous law, which promises higher costs and worse care.

At this point, Obamacare’s critics have to play the long game — and press for delays in the law’s implementation, whether by rolling back certain parts of the law or defunding it through a continuing resolution, until the White House has a new occupant.

Here are seven provisions that should be part of a replacement agenda that would ensure that all Americans have affordable, accessible, quality health care. Read more at washingtonexaminer.com.