(Natural News) The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is an enormous piece of legislation with thousands of moving parts, so to speak, and tentacles that reach into several federal agencies and scores of statutes.

It's a gargantuan law that was designed to be pervasive, complex and difficult to dismantle.

So it should come as no surprise to anyone that despite a pledge by President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional majority to quickly repeal and replace Obamacare, it's not going to be as simple a task as Americans were initially led to believe.

That said, it seems that, finally, there is at least an Obamacare repeal bill being offered by House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders, having been introduced on Thursday to a cacophony of criticism from conservatives in both chambers of Congress.

Among the bill's most vociferous critics is Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., himself a physician who got Trump's attention early on with his plea to both repeal and replace Obamacare, though not at the same time, lest Republicans get bogged down and stuck with similarly bad legislation that perpetuates all the worst things about the Affordable Care Act. (RELATED: GOP Sen. Cotton: 'Start over' on Obamacare replacement because current bill won't pass)

In an interview with Breitbart News, Paul slammed Ryan for misleading the president on the process of getting the bill through the House, as well as the level of support for it (sources told Breitbart that as many as 70 House Republicans are not in favor of the legislation as written).

Nevertheless, Ryan is moving ahead, claiming in press conferences that he believes he has the 218 votes necessary to pass what critics have already dubbed "Ryan-Care," though it is not at all clear he does.