Senate Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare, bill heads to House

The House is expected to send the bill to the president in the next few days.

The bill would be the first to reach Obama’s desk aimed at demolishing his 2010 health care overhaul and halting federal payments to Planned Parenthood.

The bill would repeal the law’s expanded Medicaid coverage for lower-income people and its federal subsidies for those buying policies in insurance marketplaces.

“The pro-life community stood together to advocate removing the flow of most tax dollars to Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process, and the Senate rightly rejected efforts to force federal complicity in funding abortion groups”. Republican leaders included the defund language as a statement against Planned Parenthood, which sting videos alleged was selling fetal tissue. The House passed a similar Obamacare repeal bill.

“Federal funds do not pay for abortion to begin with”, said Cathy Easter, executive director at Safe Harbor Shelter in Richmond.

“The value is to let him know – the president – and others that there’s a big division in this country, and a lot of us don’t like it, and the American people don’t like it”, said Republican Sen. Planned Parenthood has proven itself to be a morally bankrupt organization that shows little regard for the women they purport to serve and even less regard for innocent life.

Some Republicans are also clearly nervous about the political implications of throwing millions of Americans off of their insurance, which is why GOP leadership has said that both provisions would be implemented gradually, to give time for Republicans to design an “alternative” health law. This time, they used a special budget procedure known as “reconciliation” that prevents filibusters and allowed them to prevail with a simple majority. The Federation described the Planned Parenthood funding was necessary especially after the events that took place last week.

“It’s all tied up with getting enough votes to deliver on what Republicans have promised to deliver on for about four years”, said Sen.

Do away with the taxes imposed to cover the law’s costs, including levies on the income of higher-earning people, medical devices, and tanning salons. “We have a mandate, I believe, to repeal this awful law”.

Nevertheless, many Senate and House Republicans see the passing of the bill as a precursor of what is to come should a Republican president be elected in 2016.