Do Republicans Really Want to Repeal Obamacare? Maybe Not
August 8, 2016
News Article
Here is something that may surprise you. Did you know that in the 6 ½ years since the passage of Obamacare, Republicans have not held a single hearing on the problems the law has created for ordinary people? No hearing in the House of Representatives. None in the Senate. None anywhere else. Zip. Zero. Nada.
There certainly has been no shortage of problems. It seems like every other week the (liberal) New York Times NYT -0.16% brings us a new investigative report—complete with gory details and eyewitness reports of victim after victim of President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment. But if you look over the subject matter for the committee hearings in Congress for the past several years, you would never know an Obamacare problem even exists.
Why is that? There have been no shortage of votes to repeal Obamacare. At last count the House has voted to repeal some or all of the hated legislation 60 times!
But if you are going to vote to repeal something, shouldn’t you at least know why you want to repeal it? And to get a handle on that, why not bring in witnesses, consider evidence and mull over the findings?
