Will Republicans use reconciliation to try and repeal Obamacare?

need to keep some of it, like can't be dropped if you get sick.

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Probably better to repeal the whole thing and start from scratch

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That would be great if they had won enough Senate seats to override the inevitable veto.

Best strategy is probably to attack it piece by piece.

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enough Senate seats to override the inevitable veto.

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I'd like to see them try this - get every DEM senator on record - if they uphold the veto, let them justify it to their constituents in the next election.

The GOP should keep sending bills to the POTUS for signature or veto - NO COMPROMISES with the duplicitous one. Let the DEM senators decide if they want to end their careers by upholding the veto.

I don't want a SINGLE compromise with Obama. Not a one.

Elections have consequences - or so I have heard.

I'm down with it.

I get the feeling the electorate is still hanging on to the promises of 2012 R's who said repeal and replace was the plan.

There's a catch here.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by Obama on March 23, 2010. That was BEFORE the reconciliation process was completed.

Reconciliation was used to pass the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which was signed into law by Obama a week later, on March 30, 2010.

We would have Obamacare even without the reconciliation process, it would just look different. Some Dem. House members refused to pass the Affordable care Act as it was presented to them on March 21, 2010, so on that day the House passed both the Affordable care Act AND the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Obama, Reid and Pelosi had to pledge to those Dems that the amendments they wanted put in place regarding Obamacare would , via reconciliation to avoid the then-unattainable 60-vote cloture rule which was lost when Brown was sworn in to the Senate, be approved by the Senate on the 51 vote majority rule and be signed into law, which it was one week later. This is an important distinction. Again, the Affordable Care Act , i.e., Obamacare, was signed into law prior to the reconciliation process taking place to amend certain parts of it that were not palatable to a small group of Democratic congressmen. Thus, the reconciliation route could only be used to undo the amendments to the Act specified in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and not the ACA itself.

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Some portions, and perhaps all, of the Affordable Care Act may be immune to attack via Budget Reconciliation because they fall under these restrictions. For, example, the current law reduces the deficit over time. Any changes might result in increasing the deficit which would not be allowed under Budget Reconciliation. Also, provisions of the act like restrictions on insurance companies being able to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions probably would be exempt since they don’t produce a change in federal outlays or revenues. The Senate’s Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough will have to rule on whether the changes in any repeal legislation met the requirements for Budget Reconciliation. If she reuled they did not, the Republicans would need 60 votes to override her ruling, something Republicans would not get.

However, many of the key provisions of the law – including the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, the creation of insurance exchanges where low-income families can buy subsidized policies, and Medicare and Medicaid funding measures –probably would meet the reconciliation requirements.

In short, the Republicans probably could repeal some, but not all, of Obamacare using Budget Reconciliation. Unfortunately, the provisions they could repeal would be some of the most critical to the operation of the law.

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Well, the individual mandate is in trouble.

This essentially guts the bill.

Repeal the mess. Then start over and fashion a new law. Just keep the government OUT of healthcare. Let private sector run healthcare. Let the doctor service the patient instead of working for the government.

While we're at it.

IMPEACH THE FRAUD.

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Probably better to repeal the whole thing and start from scratch...with a bill that they will actually read before passing.

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What about the people who are already on the insurance rolls and are directly benefiting from Obamacare?