Are congressional Republicans about to walk into a trap of their own making? With a vote coming (perhaps) next week, the strategy they've followed all year is about to drop them unceremoniously on a path to being stuck with an unpopular law few of them appear to even want in the first place.

The big story in health care has appeared to be straightforward: Virtually every Republican member of Congress on both sides of the Hill ran on "repealing and replacing Obamacare," but virtually all them them filled in at least some policy blanks themselves, lacking a party-endorsed plan to guide them.

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