All chuckling aside, what this debacle proves is that the Republicans never for a moment thought that the POTUS would be anyone other than Hilary Clinton.  They couldn't imagine that their own "choice" (the Great Orange Toad) could actually win.  So naturally they had no plan ready to replace the ACA, because there was going to be a Democrat in the White House.

On the other hand, it looks like the GOT himself also had no plan.  He certainly had no conception of how complex health care really is (he said as much), and he was too busy making ludicrous promises to really figure out exactly what it was that he had said he would do.  "Better health care for more people at a lower cost to each, with lower taxes!"  Surely that statement alone proves that he really didn't think he was going to win, either!

And now the GOT and the GOP are in bed together (try not to picture that explicitly, for the sake of your own stomach).