NBC News: “They rarely agree on much, but health care experts on the left, right and center of the political spectrum have found consensus on the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement: It won’t work.”

“Let’s start with the primary objection from the center and left: It’s very likely people will lose insurance coverage if the GOP plan became law, taking full effect in 2020. Possibly a lot of people…”

“Republicans have long argued that the goal of a replacement should be to reduce the cost of insurance and health care procedures rather than simply hand money over to individuals to buy it. But experts complain that the GOP plan leaves out the most prominent proposals (especially among conservatives) that might drive costs down. And some of its features could potentially drive prices higher.”

Playbook: “Republicans have one chance to replace the health care law. Because of the rules of budget reconciliation — and President Donald Trump’s desire to overhaul the tax code on his second go-round — if Republicans screw this one up, they’re in trouble. They don’t really have a second chance.”

For members: The GOP’s Last Chance to Repeal Obamacare

White House officials tell Mike Allen that President Trump is prepared to use a combination of hug and hammer to try to rescue Republicans’ repeal-and-replace plan for Obamacare after a rocky roll out.

The hug: “Trump plans to travel the country to talk up the need for repeal, Vice President Pence has mobilized, Cabinet members will be deployed, administration officials are blitzing talk radio, and the White House has begun outreach to conservative groups.”

The hammer, per a White House official: “Ultimately, members are going to be faced with a binary choice: Do I support repeal, or have I gone to voters for four election cycles in a row, and now look to keep Obamacare?”

Playbook: “We’re told the president is being urged to stop saying that this health-care bill represents the beginning of a negotiation. He supports the bill, and any confusion about where he stands, allies and aides say, is not helpful. His rhetoric already seems to have changed. He’s privately threatening retribution for people who don’t get on board.”

“House Freedom Caucus members said Tuesday the GOP’s Obamacare repeal and replace plan does not have the votes necessary to pass the lower chamber,” The Hill reports.

Said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL): “Right now the Speaker of the House does not have the votes to pass this bill unless he’s got substantial Democratic support.”

President Trump warned House Republicans if they can’t pass health care legislation after seven years of promises it could be a “bloodbath” in the 2018 midterm election, CNN reports.

Trump vowed to throw his full support behind the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during a meeting with House GOP leadership, saying he is “proud” to support a GOP-authored plan to replace Obamacare and told members behind closed doors that he would support it “100%.”

Jonathan Chait: “Following the unveiling of the House Republican plan to shrink Obamacare dramatically, two surprising things happened. The first is that the conservative-movement apparatus has lined up rapidly against the bill…. The second surprising thing is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his intention to jam the House bill through the Senate quickly. Rather than develop its own bills through committees and the normal debate process, McConnell declared he plans to bring it directly to the Senate floor. Neither of these decisions makes a great deal of sense on their own, and they make even less sense in conjunction with each other.”

“While McConnell’s plan might be necessary in order to keep the party’s legislative strategy on track, it is highly and even delusionally optimistic, given the state of his vote count. It also runs counter to the Senate’s institutional culture.”

“This raises a question: Is it designed to violate the Senatorial ego? And thus to fail? Neither the conservative revolt nor McConnell’s plan make a lot of sense if you view them as strategies designed to yield the most right-wing health-care policy that is attainable. They do make sense as a strategy designed to insulate Republicans from failure.”