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House to Vote Yet Again on Repealing Health Care Law
The 37th time won’t be the charm. But House Republicans are charging forward anyway this week on a vote to repeal President Obama’s signature health care overhaul, which will put the number of times they have tried to eliminate, defund or curtail the law past the three-dozen mark.

The repeal vote, which is likely to occur Thursday, will be at least the 43rd day since Republicans took over the House that they have devoted time to voting on the issue.

That means that since 2011, Republicans have spent no less than 15 percent of their time on the House floor on repeal in some way.

Liberals mock Republicans for what they dismiss as a waste of time. It represents a fitting ordering of priorities, they say, for a body whose few accomplishments this year include passing a bill that kept the Federal Helium Reserve open, heading off a critical shortage of the gas, and another that modifies the requirements for gold and silver coins commemorating the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/politics/house-republicans-to-vote-again-on-repealing-health-care.html?from=homepage

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Too bad it can't get through the Senate. Obamacare will be a monumental trainwreck.

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Fox News Convinces Itself That IRS Scandal Will Bring Down Obamacare (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/15/2014011/fox-news-convinces-itself-that-irs-scandal-will-undermine-obamacare/)
“It’s possible the IRS scandal will delay the implementation of Obamacare. That’s where this is heading,” Varney exclaimed:

MACCALLUM: It’s a dangerous and slippery slope when their credibility comes into question. They know what you make. They know what your income is. Now they are supposed to marry that information with whether you are eligible for a healthcare subsidy. And that raises questions because you have got to keep them posted on every change that may lap in our employment picture.

VARNEY: There is more to it than that. Your doctor is going to put on file electronically your entire medical history. And the IRS wants to know about your health insurance. There is no wall between those two areas of information. And bearing in mind what they have done politically there is no assurance they won’t jump that wall and go into your personal medical history. That’s where the lack of trust comes in.

MACCALLUM: We were told you didn’t have to fear anything about your privacy and having your healthcare record online wasn’t an issue. But people have been scanning document for catch words you wonder what they will scan in terms of healthcare and health records. It’s a legitimate question.

Sixty percent or approximately 160 million Americans who receive health care coverage from their employers already (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/14/2008301/republicans-irs-scandal-smear-obamacare/) write-off the cost of their health care benefits through the IRS and have done so without widespread privacy issues. Families who enroll in nongroup policies and itemize their deductions have been deducting a portion of their medical expenses and the self-employed are receiving a deduction from the IRS (http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/7779.pdf) “when calculating their income tax for the amount paid for health insurance for themselves and their spouse or dependents.”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/15/2014011/fox-news-convinces-itself-that-irs-scandal-will-undermine-obamacare/

Repugs really want to destroy Obamacare, and have nothing to replace it.