They can't. I can already hear the caterwauling and boo-hoo anecdotes of "cutting" health care for every imaginable victim group.
This isn’t about cutting free care, it’s about selling care at inflated prices and deflated service levels. If the GOP had an ounce of gumption left to shout this from coast to coast, of course.
they don’t have to fund it....they can pass a law stating no one can be forced to buy something...and they can manuever to dump it since Taxing authority has to originate in the House....
Yes, this will now become another “untouchable” in American politics, because the spineless Republicans (as a whole) in Congress will stutter and stammer but never risk their precious “careers” to oppose it. I don’t know why anyone would think differently, it’s happened with every single expansion of government in our history. We keep trying to make the way clear for representatives to oppose these things, electing Tea Party politicians and such, but once they get there, someone takes them into a room and gives them a shot or shows them pictures or something, because they never fail to become co-opted. Representative government is NOT working anymore.