Question: Will Health Care Reform be Repealed?
One of the platforms that the Republican Party and the Tea Party ran on during the 2010 midterm elections was the repeal of health care reform. Will the health care reform bill be repealed during the time the Republicans control the House of Representatives in 2011?
Answer:
Congress may find that it was easier to campaign based on the repeal of health care reform than to actually repeal it. One problem is that President Obama has veto power, so any vote may be symbolic.
Congressional Republicans would like to replace the so-called "Obamacare" bill with their own version of health care reform. Most feel that it will be easier to actually rollback parts of the current health care reform bill than to repeal the entire bill. However, the Republican House may take frequent repeal votes, cut funding to the health care reform bill, and conduct already-promised oversight hearings.
