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Risch To Push For Reform Repeal

The health care reconciliation bill has cleared the Senate on a 56-43 vote, but Idaho senior Sen. Mike Crapo said opponents will not give up. And Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said he will push to repeal portions of the reform law. "We have been fighting for all those Americans who have been shouting that they don’t want this bill," Crapo, R-Idaho, said in a statement. "They know that this bill and the health care reform legislation signed earlier this week will bury future generations in debt and burden them with unreasonable costs. The Administration and the majority leaders in Congress believe that the American people are wrong, and that they should just be quiet and get out of their way. But we will keep up the fight"/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: What do you think the odds are that lawsuits by several states and diehard opposition from Republican congressmen will succeed in overturning health care reform?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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