Repeal Obamacare bill: Michele Bachmann introduces first bill of 113th Congress

The Minnesota Representative introduced a bill to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, the first bill of the 113th Congress--but it stands almost no chance of passing.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party darling and former presidential candidate introduced the first House bill of the 113th Congress Thursday.

Of course, the bill she introduced was to--you guessed it--repeal Obamacare in its entirety.

Even if Bachmann's bill stood a chance of becoming law (it almost certainly would not pass the Democrat-led Senate and be vetoed by President Obama), it's not even the first time House Republicans have tried to repeal the act.

Bachmann's bill, H.R. 45, "To Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010," marks the 34th time such a bill has been introduced--to no avail--in the House.

(As a side note, Bachmann dropped out of the 2012 presidential race on Jan. 4, 2012, exactly one year ago Friday.)

Obamacare is a train wreck, and Democrats in the Senate are about to be in the middle of it.
Remember, the Supreme Court invalidated the part in Obamacare dealing with the coercion of the states, through the withholding of Medicaid funds, to form the state exchanges. Now, thirty-some-odd states have either opted out, or are about to do so.
This means Obama must now set up a federal exchange, and no funds were allocated in the law for this purpose.
Since the exchanges were going to be the mechanism by which subsidies would flow to the poor to help them buy a policy, now the poor, already battered by the payroll tax increase, will scream like stuck pigs if forced to buy insurance.
Something’s got to give, and if you are a Senator up for reelection in 2014, you don’t want to go to your own “townhall”, because you will be skewered if the mandate stays in place. This is another “fiscal cliff” if you’re a Democrat, with no way to blame it on Republicans. Remember, the people who don’t have policies are quite happy without them, this bill is only popular with those who want the pre-existing conditions benefit. Everyone else, statistically, hates it.
This never was a health CARE crisis. Care is being provided, and the cure for a health care problem never was health insurance. The insurance companies are already screaming, because adverse selection was going to avoided only by them receiving premiums from a much larger base. Now this simply will not happen, so even those who can now afford policies, soon won’t be able to.

Perhaps Reid can ignore it this time, but at some point, and the clock is ticking.....the trains shall meet.

Excellent Reality Check post. Thanks!

CJ John Roberts declared that obozo care is a tax. Since by law all tax bills have to start in the House, why isn't someone up there speaking out that since it started in the senate it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL? Thus, unless or untill the Congress takes it through the legal process, it is null and void. Oh yeah, for those in DC, laws that are contray to the wishes of the power elite don't matter. Selective application and enforcement of Constitutioanl law makes clear this current US government is illegitamate and therefore must be removed.

No, he declared it is a CORPORATE tax - and ONLY a corporate tax - based on NO NEW DEFINITION of a corporate tax.

If people want to let it be applied to themselves, that's their own damn faults for being too lazy to learn the law.

One Stone, Two Powers: How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America

The Constitution delineates the type of taxes that can be enacted and my understanding is that a tax whether it be corporate or otherwise is still a tax. The legislation to enact ANY TAX is mandated by the Constitution that it MUST originate in the House. That was the out that Judge Roberts handed those in DC but for some reason nobody on the Hill is willing to challenge obozo care on its UNCONSTITUTIONAL TAX basis. Nor are they challenging the eneligablility of the obozo to be president when validated evidence of fraudlant documents proves he is not eligable. To reiterate; this current adminstration is illegitamate and any legislation that obozo signs in to law is as well illegitamate.

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