“What is it you don’t understand about 60 votes.”
I thought that Obamacare, as it exists now, was created through reconciliation without the required 60 votes (because Kennedy died, leaving the Dems 59 votes).
Is there some reason Republicans can not repeal it the same way?
The HOUSE passed the previously passed Senate bill, and using the reconciliation process adjusted some of the numbers on taxes and subsidies.
The bill was legally passed as statute.
“I thought that Obamacare, as it exists now, was created through reconciliation without the required 60 votes”
That is misinformation. You should start distrusting the source that informed you of that.
The bill passed the Senate 60-39, and the House decided to pass the Senate bill and use their reconciliation process to adjust the taxes and subsidies.
Otherwise it would not be law. And it is.
Look it up on Wiki.
It was done by getting other bills through with 60 and replacing relevant budgetary text, approved by the Parliamentarian.
You have to go back and read the exact sequence and method. Mostly the problem was Kennedy died and a GOP guy won that seat. That left them with 59. They then contorted the bills they had passed into budgetary issues so that the Parliamentarian would accept it.
Ryan would love to remove all text about individual mandate. He can, but it would die in the Senate because it won’t have 60. What he CAN do is reduce the fine to 0. And he has.
One word; RINOs. We don’t have even 50 in the Senate for actual repeal.