If Republicans secure the big national election wins pundits are predicting, they?re still not likely to have enough votes to override a presidential veto. Since President Obama is unlikely to part voluntarily with ObamaCare, the GOP might need to find an alternative to killing it outright.
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek outlines one such strategy: Hit government where it hurts.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will take as much as $20 billion over the next decade to write and support new regulations. The law Obama signed in March provided only $1 billion. Health-care reform is designed to add as many as 32 million people to insurance rolls by 2019.
GOP strategists are already plotting how they can defund health care, starting with sitting on the President’s 2012 budget request, due in February. Aides to Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the second-ranking House Republican, have carved out other ways they hope to choke off new health programs. Among the targets, they say, is funding for the health insurance exchanges that states are supposed to create so consumers can compare plans and buy coverage.
Also in their sights are the new agency meant to oversee research comparing the effectiveness of treatments and any funds Obama requests to hire federal workers to implement the law.
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