I also read something about how the statehouses being taken over by republicans can make it so that them passing laws to protect their citizens from Obamacare can also be used to attack it on a second front. All the dems need to do to make themselves irrevelent for the next 40+ years is to re elect Pelosi to show the public that they did not get the message!
This needs a multi-prong approach: Fighting it in public opinion, in the State Houses, in the Courts, and in Congress.
Yes. That is one way to kill it a two pronged attack. Starve the beast in the House at the federal level and the states attack it on constitutional grounds at the state level. If I remember correctly, a judge ruled in Fla. that the AG who are suing the ACA due to its unconstitutional mandate can proceed with the suit.
I have also heard that states are considering election referundums that would make such federal mandates null and void as it applies to their state residents.
It seems that the states can refuse to pay for unfunded mandates. This action would cripple Obamacare.
The Democrats are desperate to repeal the new 1099 requirement. The Republicans blocked them in the summer from this move. Obviously Republicans favor repeal but they do not want to repeal the provision without revisiting the entire legislation.