Senate OKs Republican bill unraveling health care law

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Republicans openly welcoming a preordained veto, the Senate on Thursday approved legislation aimed at crippling two of their favorite targets: President Barack Obama's health care law and Planned Parenthood.

With a House rubber stamp expected in days, the bill would be the first to reach Obama's desk demolishing his 2010 health care overhaul, one of his proudest domestic achievements, and halting federal payments to Planned Parenthood. Congress has voted dozens of times to repeal or weaken the health law and repeatedly against Planned Parenthood's funding, but until now Democrats thwarted Republicans from shipping the legislation to the White House.

Thursday's vote was a near party-line 52-47.

Republicans said an Obama veto — which the White House has promised — will underscore that a GOP triumph in next year's presidential and congressional elections would mean repeal of a statute they blame for surging medical costs and insurers abandoning some markets. They lack the two-thirds House and Senate majorities needed to override vetoes, assuring that the bill's chief purpose will be for campaign talking points.

"President Obama will have a choice," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "He can defend a status quo that's failed the middle class by vetoing the bill, or he can work toward a new beginning and better care by signing it."

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[elmac]

1. GOP aka

American Daesh.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Can anyone name a single thing republicans have ever done that wasn't some sour ass shit in the

Last 100 years? No matter what it is it ALWAYS sucks.

[Travis_0004]

3. Civil rights act of 1960?

[Art_from_Ark]

7. That was mostly a bi-partisan affair in Congress

although it was signed by a Republican President.

[Matthew28]

4. two things

nasa and epa

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5. And they'd love to get rid of both of those

EPA in particular.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. In 1924, American Indians were finally given full citizenship

but the same year saw the passage of the Oriental Exclusion Act that led to deteriorating relations between the US and Japan.

[PatrickforO]

6. The GOP has failed the middle class by

opposing single payer tooth and nail. Obamacare is THEIR idea in the first place. A giant government welfare program for the insurance industry.

[LS_Editor]

8. Where is their alternative? We've been waiting for it for some time...

I'm beginning to believe it doesn't exist...

[Matthew28]

9. let them die

As only the rich should be able to afford healthcare in their mind.