Repeal Obamacare -- Reconciliation | National Review Online
by Mike Lee & Mark Walker September 30, 2015
Patient costs are up. Access to doctors is down. Co-ops are going bankrupt, and insurance companies have already asked Uncle Sam for a taxpayer-funded bailout.
Five years have passed since former speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) infamously admitted, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Americans now know what was hiding in Obamacare. And they don’t like it.
That’s why it is more important than ever for Republicans in Congress to honor the promises we have made to the American people and finally send an Obamacare-repeal bill to the president’s desk. We can do this, before the end of the year, through a procedure known as “budget reconciliation.”
Normally it takes 60 votes to move legislation in the Senate. But a reconciliation bill is considered “privileged,” so it can pass the Senate by a simple majority vote as long as it contains “policies affecting mainly permanent spending and revenue programs.”
Congressional Democrats used this very mechanism to force Obamacare through Congress on a party-line vote, ...
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424853/repeal-obamacare-reconciliation
Congressional Democrats used this very mechanism to force Obamacare through Congress on a party-line vote, ...
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424853/repeal-obamacare-reconciliation
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