Five Republican senators are pushing for opponents of the Affordable Care Act to replace the law when they repeal it, rather than repealing it and working to replace it later.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has joined with four colleagues to ask the Senate to put delay provisions, Senate Amendment 22 and 23, in Senate Concurrent Resolution 3.

The provisions would give congressional committees until March 3 to come up with a proposal for repealing, de-funding or changing the ACA. The current version of the resolution would require the committees to complete their work by Jan. 27.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.