“Thanks to this new precedent, the next time a bill removing tax dollars to Planned Parenthood and repealing Obamacare hits a pro-life president’s desk, both the travesties of tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood and Obamacare will be brought to an end”, concluded Perkins.
Advertisement
Since the law’s passage, Republicans in Congress over the past few years have authored dozens of unsuccessful attempts to repeal all or part of the health care law.
As previously reported, the House voted 240-181 in favor of the legislation on Wednesday, and last month, the Senate voted 52 to 47. For example, it would remove the requirement that all Americans have health care, so only sick people would have insurance. “And it is working”.
President Barack Obama vetoed a measure to repeal most of his signature health-care law on Friday, releasing a statement that extolled the virtues of his biggest domestic policy achievement while excoriating Republicans for trying to dismantle it.
Obama said Republicans in Congress have attempted to repeal the health care act over 50 times.
Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) joined the House in passing a bill that fully repeals Obamacare and fully defunds Planned Parenthood Thursday. The president was forced to recognize this when he signed legislation to repeal the auto-enrollment provision a year ago.
The House of Representatives will consider whether to try to override the veto on January 26, officials said.
For maximum visibility, Republican leaders made the legislation their first major vote of 2016.
But in his veto message to Congress today, Obama disagreed.
“Nothing’s been decided yet”, Ryan said, reported the Associated Press.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted: “Instead of throwing 17 million Americans off of health insurance, we should be expanding on the Affordable Care Act”. The healthcare service is a target of Republican attacks over its abortion services, as well as a recent scandal over providing fetal tissue for research. All he has done is kill an historic bill that would have redirected existing funding from the scandal-plagued Planned Parenthood to thousands of better, low-priced community health care providers that serve women and families far more comprehensively. They say they sorely need more healthy customers to balance out the costs of covering the sicker, older people who have flocked to exchange plans.
Advertisement
“Live Action will continue to expose Planned Parenthood’s criminal acts, its extremism, and its repeated abuses of women and girls so that Congress and new leadership in Washington will be motivated to finish the job and permanently end taxpayer funding to the nation’s biggest abortion chain”. Government meddling in the healthcare markets, particularly federal government meddling, is what has caused numerous problems that have led to calls for “reform” in the first place. Republicans, in turn, took to the floor to critique Planned Parenthood in graphic terms, accusing the group of killing babies.
