How can one page fully repeal Obamacare? The monster has many tentacles burrowed deeply into every aspect of our lives. Rip out one and another area collapses.
Obamacare was built to be as repeal proof as possible.
I’d be very interested in reading any bill that purports to be a clean repeal.
Here’s the language. As of July 1, 2017, all sections of the Affordable Health Care Act are hereby repealed and the regulations which were in place upon it’s passage are restored.
See, 1 sentence.
I’ve posted examples of repealed laws in the past. You can find one I am sure if you want.
But a full repeal has the standard header and date of a law, and the law section goes on to say that such and such law with title and reference is hereby repealed. And that law ceases to exist.
Look at the 21st Amendment of the Constitution. And that gives an example. It’s the same as repealing a law.
Note that a full repeal is a law in itself. It is a law to take down a law.
Because it is a law, it requires Senate passage which means it must have a filibuster proof majority.
So a full repeal would have easily passed the House because hardly any republican would want to be on record as opposed to repealing Obamacare.
But a full repeal would have failed in the Senate because the democrats would have filibustered.
Had that happened, it would be clear that the democrats failed in the latest round. But as it is, Ryan gets the deserved blame.