Repeal The Health Care Law? Not So Easy

[Swede]

Republicans regained control of the House on Tuesday in part with a pledge to "repeal and replace" the new health law. But carrying out that campaign promise won't be as easy as making it was.

"Republicans cannot repeal Obamacare with President Obama wielding the veto pen," says Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies for the libertarian Cato Institute. "I mean that's not within a set of possible outcomes."

That's because as large as the new GOP majority will be come January, it's still not large enough to override a presidential veto. In addition, the Senate will still be controlled by the Democrats, who are unlikely to go along with the repeal effort.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131045119

[Drale]

1. A series of Checks and Balances

the house alone does not have the power to repeal anything. I know republicans like to think they have the power of a god but they dont.

[rfranklin]

2. That's okay, the will use it as a propaganda ploy...

Evil Obama forces socialist agenda on the American people.

[mediaman007]

4. The smart choice by the Senate is to accept the House (Republican) bill.

The Senate can then add amendments and change the bill anyway they want. Then when the two groups meet in conference, it will be obvious that the House Republicans will not compromise. The bill will die in conference, but it will not be the Democrats that kill the bill. Let the Republicans take the blame.

[eleny]

3. That's what Lawrence O'Donnell was emphatically pointing out on Tuesday, too

The process is going to tie their hands on a lot they try to pull. It's probably why they've been so loud and outrageous in front of the cameras. They needed to start their sturm und drang right off the bat.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. What about the talk of not funding it? I tend to believe that th repukes are devious enough to find

a way to make it toothless.