Why Republicans Are Voting to Repeal Obamacare—Again
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As if begging for a Groundhog Day joke, House Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act again on Tuesday. It'll be the 56th shot they've taken at the law, and just like every other time they've tried to erase President Obama's signature achievement, this attempt is doomed to fail. Republicans have nowhere near the veto-proof majority they'd need to kill Obamacare.
So why waste everyone's time with another futile repeal vote? The simple answer, as Boehner himself told Fox News's Bret Baier last week, is they're doing it for the freshmen—that is, the 47 House Republicans who just took office a month ago and have never had the high honor and privilege of voting to repeal Obamacare. By holding the vote, these lawmakers can head back to their districts and tell their constituents that yes, they did everything they could to get rid of the reviled law. "We're just getting it out of the way," one Republican aide told the Washington Examiner,
reflecting a sentiment probably shared by a party leadership that has seen this game play out several times already.
not to mention the millions of taxpayer money to give those newbies who are also not on your side a trickle down their leg feeling of trying to screw Americans out of health care they are getting more and more bizarre as the clock ticks. i couldn't believe that when i read it that is wearing the scarlet sign on their foreheads of party of stupidity.
A more pressing issue is whether Republicans can coalesce around an Obamacare replacement bill that they've promised but have never delivered.
A more pressing issue for Republicans is whether, at long last, they can coalesce around an Obamacare replacement bill that they've promised for years but have never delivered. Around this time in 2014, then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor made an explicit pledge to conservatives that the House would vote on a GOP healthcare plan by the end of the year.
He lost his primary three months later, and that promise was more or less forgotten. Now, the Republican leadership has assigned three committee chairmen, including 2012 vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, with the dual task of writing an Obamacare alternative and forming a contingency plan in case the Supreme Court votes this spring to wipe out insurance subsidies for people who signed up for coverage under the federal exchange.
what about the millions who signed up and are happy just throw them back into the insurance rip off abyss that is their plan including that voucher got to get that in there after all whatever they come up with will be around that plan anyway. all the republican voters need to turn to another channel at least during this time of republicans trying to still deny them health care you see what they have started and it's the 3rd day of Feb. and i defy you to show where it's good for you.
