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Okie1 gave me this answer the other day, seems likely.

Give the Democrats credit where credit is due. They found a way to hold future Congresses to the actions of a present Congress — which is supposed to be not possible.

Having passed Obamacare, they recognized they were going to lose the House in 2010 — and, with that, control of the pursestrings.
So, puzzlingly, they failed to pass a FY 2010 budget. And, subsequently, the Democrat Senate has failed to pass a FY 2011 and 2012 budget. Nor will they pass a FY 2013 budget. All of this is intentional.
Consequently, FY 2009 spending (importantly, including Porkulus) has been locked in place since October, 2010 — with a generous (and automatic) annual escalator, thanks to the wonders of Jimmy Carter’s baseline budgeting.
As the time of its passage, the Democrat House and Senate were careful to not only appropriate but authorize funds for the implementation of Obamacare — through its full-scale implementation in 2014. The House is unable to simnply “defund” this implementation...unless the Democrat Senate agrees.
Which they won’t.
The only control that the GOP House has on spending is the debt limit — which controls overall spending, but does not prioritize it. And, of course, they have entered every negotiation with the codicil that they will not shut down the government to achieve their aims.
Under these circumstances, they can cut some spending by some amount — but never in an area that the Democrats are not agreeable to.

Net:net, there is no practical way to defund Obamacare until a new administration takes office — affording a Senate that will approve a repeal bill and a President that will sign one.

I know it’s fun to hate the wimpy Republicans. But you should at least hate them for the right reasons...