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Obamacare: Oh, How They Posture

Every so often - about 38 or 39 times now - the House GOP votes to overturn Obamacare. It's all for show. Repeal is a non-starter in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Standing in the path of any repeal is a presidential veto. Wednesday the House did it again. It voted to acknowledge the Obama administration's one-year delay in imposing mandated insurance coverage for employers of 50 workers or more. Then it voted to extend the same one-year postponement to the individual mandate.The first vote is largely symbolic. Large private employers already provide insurance for 96 percent of their workers. But delaying the individual mandate is a proxy for disrupting coverage for individuals and small businesses as well as destabilizing the pharmaceutical and hospital sectors. Washington's Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Idaho's Raul Labrador and Mike Simpson followed up with sweeping condemnations of the health care reform act/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you think Obamacare opponents know that repeal of federal health system is a nonstarter?



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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