It'd take 60 votes to end the cloture that would delay the repeal vote.
The way that the Senate Republicans were messing themselves at the possibility that the Supreme Court might vote against Obamacare leads me to believe there is no real interest in getting rid of it.
“It’d take 60 votes to end the cloture that would delay the repeal vote.
“The way that the Senate Republicans were messing themselves at the possibility that the Supreme Court might vote against Obamacare leads me to believe there is no real interest in getting rid of it.”
As it relates to your first sentence - it was passed on reconciliation, which per Senate rules cannot be filibustered. Repealing it on reconciliation, one would presume, would need only to meet that same threshold.
Which brings us to your second part, which is the crux of it - they’ve already floated the balloon that the parliamentarian, a non-elected legislative bureaucrat appointed by Reid in 2012, won’t go along with it. It shouldn’t matter in theory, as her role is presumably only advisory; in practice, however, McConnell has made it known that he will folow that lead, thus moving the goalposts once again.
In short, kids, don’t get your hopes up.