(Bloomberg View) — If House Republicans enact their health-care bill, they're screwed. They'll have lost the critical initial dialogue and left opponents salivating.

If they fail to pass it, they're screwed, too, having broken a commitment of the past four elections.

The Trumpcare debacle confirms the wisdom of the late Republican pollster Bob Teeter, who predicted a couple of decades ago that health care would be a loser for whichever political party owns it.

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