The waivers were only good for one year is how I understand it. If GOP wins congress and WH, the entire ACA can be repealed before it becomes entrenched with all those government run health exchanges, free contraceptives, and tax payer subsidies to the 47 million on food stamps to buy health care insurance.
“If GOP wins congress and WH, the entire ACA can be repealed before it becomes entrenched with all those government run health exchanges, free contraceptives, and tax payer subsidies to the 47 million on food stamps to buy health care insurance.”
We may have the numbers in the House to pass a repeal bill, but even if we retake the Senate, we probably won’t have a filibuster-proof super-majority there.
It takes 60 votes to force cloture in the Senate. We’re not going to have 60 Republican senators in 2013, no way.
All it takes is one ‘rat senator to filibuster. Without a way to force cloture, “repeal” of ObamaCare is out of the question. The ‘rats know this, and they will NEVER permit a Senate vote to go forward so long as they have the ability to stop it.
Hmmm.... after writing that, I see a -possible- exception — the same one that I believe was used to ram the original ObamaCare bill through the Senate in the first place. That is, present it as a “fiscal matter”, since fiscal-related bills can’t be filibustered, but can pass on a 51-49 majority. Not sure if the Pubbies have the savvy to get this done, however.
I don’t like it any more than you do, but I’m a realist, and that’s how I see it.