WASHINGTON -- At long last, congressional Republicans have honored a pledge to conservatives and repealed President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform plan. Sort of.

A mere 2,116 days after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, the House voted 240-181 Wednesday on a Senate-passed measure to eliminate the most important parts of Obamacare.

Republican leaders are portraying the move as a promise fulfilled after dozens of previous House votes to repeal, defund or otherwise trash the Affordable Care Act. And the bill heading to the White House would indeed kill vital parts of the law, such as its health insurance subsidies, its expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults and the mandates that most Americans get health coverage and that large employers provide it to workers.

The next thing that will happen is the repeal bill will speed its way to Obama's desk, where he will promptly veto it and carry on with whatever else he was doing.

Self-congratulatory press conferences won't change the fact that Republicans haven't actually repealed anything and are nowhere near proposing their long-awaited "replacement" plan, despite new pledges from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other leaders.