I really wish FReepers would come to some reality on this. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO REPEAL APA. It doesn't matter WHAT the senate and house do....Obama will veto it and simple point of FACT is the republicans will not have the votes to override the veto. So please....all of you...stop talking nonsense.
What the GOP has to do is target the most unpopular measures of ACA FIRST...where there may be enough dim votes to override a veto.
Work your way THROUGH ACA...dismantling it piece by unpopular piece. Trying to repeal it all at once is a futile effort and only serves one purpose: To keep the issue around as political fodder. That's stupid. The moderate voters want (and have always wanted) action...not rhetoric.
If you (or anyone) think for one second that the house and senate can pass a bill totally repealing ACA....PLEASE explain how that will work given Obama's veto pen. Share with us how we can drum up 11-12 dim senate votes and override a veto from a "defiant" president....one who is certainly not interested in signing a law that repeals his signature piece of work...
Let’s start with repealing the Obama-care tax on “medical devices”, like wheelchairs and pace-makers...
Let’s then allow citizens to buy health insurance that does not REQUIRE them to “buy coverage” they don’t want — just because the government wants to “enlarge the pool of insureds”.
And let’s allow citizens to “shop” for their own health insurance — across state lines.
There’s another consideration. Any good done in the next 2 years will go down in history as happening “under the Obama administration.” Remember how Bill Clinton got all the credit for the Republican Congress’ economic reforms during his last years?
It may be best to make Obama as ineffective as possible over the next two years, and save the most popular bills for the next conservative President to sign into effect. Meanwhile, if we KNOW Obama will veto some popular bills, make sure they get to his desk, and use his veto as political fodder in 2016.