The House has voted to dismantle Obamacare dozens of times, but Republicans were unable to get a repeal measure through the Senate until late a year ago, when they used a procedural maneuver denying Democrats’ ability to block the legislation.
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House speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained that it was an important step for Republicans to show voters that they could come together on a bill offering an alternative to Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood.
Obama noted that Republicans in Congress have sought to repeal the health care law more than 50 times.
Nevertheless, Republicans are acting like this latest passage is some kind of win for them, and they held a big ceremony to celebrate Paul Ryan’s signature on the doomed, stupid legislation.
The Senate passed the legislation last month, using a budget mechanism known as “reconciliation” to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
Republican lawmakers disagreed and argued that the law, widely referreed to as Obamacare, has proven to be the “Unaffordable Care Act”. There is a path to an affordable health care system the people want and deserve.
The president’s move is unlikely to surprise Republicans, who have acknowledged the bill was not expected to get past the White House.
President Obama had the opportunity to confront his failing health care law. “This law will collapse under its own weight, or it will be repealed”. The measure would have shifted Planned Parenthood’s public subsidies to comprehensive health care clinics that offer more health services and outnumber the abortion giant 20 to 1. The people have, for years, asked Congress to stop sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, especially after we learned last year of the disturbing practices Planned Parenthood officials engage in such as harvesting and selling baby body parts. “They also know that they don’t have the votes to override it. And in the meantime, we are actually seeing record numbers of Americans sign up at healthcare.gov for the benefits that are being provided to the American people through Obamacare”.
“We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all”, Sanger once said, who was reportedly a staunch advocate of eugenics.
But Ryan said the bill proved that Obamacare can be repealed, given a Republican in the White House.
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The Senate passed the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act in December. 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.
