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Some House Democrats Join Republicans to Repeal Part of Obamacare

With the support of nearly 50 Democrats, the House passed legislation Thursday to repeal the medical device tax—a much-despised part of Obamacare.

The bill came to the floor as Capitol Hill anxiously awaits the decision in a Supreme Court case that could potentially change the future of Obamacare. Lawmakers are using that extra adrenaline to put their energy into the war on words regarding Obamacare's success or failure.

Most likely, this bill just makes a statement about the law itself.

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"This tax is a prime example of Obamacare's flawed priorities," wrote House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan in a statement released shortly after the vote.

The White House has threatened to veto the bill, but that didn't stop 46 Democrats from joining with the GOP majority to pass it, 280-140.

Republicans aren't giving up hope of it being signed into law—perhaps in the future as part of a bill in response if the Supreme Court limits Obamacare's federal subsidies in the King v. Burwell case.

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"We consider it to be one of the flaws in the Affordable Care Act, which there is bipartisan opposition to. It's unnecessary, it's expensive, it increases the cost of health care, and so we think it has a good chance at actually being signed by the president," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, in an interview.

"So far, it's his advisers who recommended a veto," Smith added. "The president himself has not expressed a personal opinion, so we think it's still possible that it could be enacted."

(The standard language of a White House veto threat states that the president's advisers would recommend the president veto the legislation should it reach his desk.)

"H.R. 160 would increase the deficit to finance a permanent and costly tax break for industry without improving the health system or helping middle-class Americans," the White House statement said about the bill.

Via: National Journal

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Majority want health law repealed or scaled back

A majority of people in the United States say they want ObamaCare to be scaled back or repealed altogether. 

According to a Gallup poll released Friday, 20 percent support a scale-back of the law, while 32 percent back efforts to repeal it.

That's just a little more than in mid-October, when 50 percent told Gallup the law should be scaled-back or repealed.

 The relatively small change could be viewed as good news at the White House given the difficult last six weeks for the law. A faulty website rolled out on Oct. 1 made enrolling in the exchanges problematic, but the administration argues the website is not functioning well for 90 percent of visitors.

More than half of Americans have believed the law should be repealed or scaled back since January 2011. 

Only 17 percent in Gallup’s latest survey say ObamaCare should remain the same. That’s a seven-percentage-point drop since the 24 percent who felt that way in October.

Ninety percent of Republicans want the law repealed or changed, the poll says. Democrats, on the other hand, want the law expanded. Half of independent voters surveyed say they want the law repealed or scaled back while 37 percent want it expanded.

A Gallup poll from earlier this week indicated a quarter of people who lack health insurance say they’re willing to pay a fine rather than enrolling in ObamaCare. Sixty-three percent of uninsured people say they intend to enroll in the health exchange.

Via: The Hill

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Obamacare Extends Its Losing Streak to 114

Obamacare makes the ’62 Mets look like the ’27 Yankees.  Since President Obama signed Obamacare into law on March 23, 2010, Rasmussen Reports has conducted 114 polls asking likely voters whether they’d prefer to keep Obamacare or repeal it.  All 114 times, voters have said they’d prefer to repeal it.  In 107 of those polls — including the one released today — Obamacare’s margin of defeat has been double-digits.

Only four teams in the modern history of Major League Baseball (1901-present) have managed to lose 114 or more games.  The 1962 New York Mets lost 120, the 2003 Detroit Tigers lost 119, the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics lost 117, and the 1935 Boston Braves lost 115.  (Even the St. Louis Browns never managed to lose 114 games.)  Yet, as horrible as these four teams were, they nevertheless combined to win 157 games, and they each had a winning percentage of at least .235.  Obamacare has a win-loss record of 0-114 and a winning percentage of .000.

Via: Weekly Standard

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Good News For Romney: Poll Finds Majority Of Americans Still Want Obamacare Repealed…

As we get further removed from a Republican convention that, at least in prime time (and apart from Paul Ryan), didn’t emphasize the importance of repealing Obamacare, and a Democratic convention at which President Obama was praised for spearheading Obamacare’s passage regardless of the considerable difficulties he faced (namely, the opposition of the vast majority of the American people), Americans’ attitudes toward repeal now seem to have reverted back to what they’ve been across the better part of the past two-and-a-half years. This is good news for the Romney campaign.

The latest polling from Rasmussen Reports shows that, by a margin of 10 percentage points (53 to 43 percent), likely voters support the repeal of Obamacare.  By a margin of 11 points (52 to 41 percent), independents support repeal. 

By overwhelming margins, Americans think Obamacare would increase, rather than decrease, health costs (52 to 20 percent); reduce, rather than improve, the quality of care (46 to 22 percent); and raise, rather than lower, deficit spending (51 to 16 percent).

It’s hard to imagine any president being reelected when his signature legislation is this unpopular and is so widely predicted to cause such harm — and Rasmussen (like most pollsters) didn’t even ask Americans about Obamacare’s likely effect on their liberty.

Via: Weekly Standard

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Rep. Steve King considering bill to repeal everything Obama has signed

If Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has his way, everything President Obama has signed into law would be repealed, and he is considering a bill to do just that, The Hill reported Wednesday.

"King put forward this suggestion to an Iowa audience on Tuesday, when he also reiterated his threat to sue the Obama administration for its June decision not to deport younger illegal immigrants," Pete Kasperowicz wrote.

He also told a group of about 60 people in Humboldt County that he intends to sue the administration over an executive orderstopping the deportation of certain illegal immigrants.

''I am bringing him to court and we're going to defend the Constitution of the United States and the separation of powers,'' he said.

According to the Messenger, King's lawsuit may be filed before Labor Day.

"He said Tuesday that he decided to sue the president the day the executive order was announced," the Messenger reported.

King said that President Obama violated the Constitution by usurping Congress' role in the lawmaking process.

''He has prosecutorial discretion, but he does not have the ability to grant blanket amnesty to entire classes of people," he added.

While King's proposal would certainly undo Obamacare, Think Progress said it would also end the Bush-era tax cuts that Obama extended in 2010, defund the military, strip Medals of Honor from 9/11 first responders and cancel plans to honor President Ronald Reagan.

Via: Examiner

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