[saywhatagain]

House Republicans, who passed a bill, 245-189, to repeal the health care law in January 2011, were meeting Thursday in the Capitol to map out their next steps. Whatever efforts House Republicans make almost certainly will die in the Senate, where Democrats have control, and Obama would have the ability to veto such a bill if it passed both chambers.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20120628/POLITICS/120629327/1520?Title=House-to-Vote-on-Repealing-Law-in-2-Weeks

I say great. Even though it will die in the Senate, make the reps stand up and be accountable for their vote1

[MacMattico]

But now that it has been redefined as a tax, can't the House just not accept it? I mean, after all, they never passed an individual mandate tax in the first place, so how can one exist? Doesn't the house have to originate all new taxes? The ruling says the mandate is a tax, but the SC has no power to create a tax, and the supreme court said it is a tax, but not that they created one, couldn't the House just say VOID?

[Reagan69]

I’m not so sure it would die in the senate, now that it’s a tax. But, would it even get to the senate? Doesn’t Harry control what gets voted on and what doesn’t?