Let’s be clear here: this chaos stems (always stems) from the Repub House leadership’s determination to adhere to the Hastert rule. As long as leadership is determined to ignore Dem votes on any bill, and move only legislation that maybe can get a majority vote among the Repub House members, they’re doomed to relive this scenario over and over again. It’s a perverse Groundhog Day.
If the Repubs were serious about fixing the ACA (I know, I know, they’re not) they would try for a bipartisan consensus and screw the Freedom Caucus. The fact they won’t do this – and instead surrender to being a hostage to the fringes in their party – is all you need to know.