GOP Bracing for Fight as Major Obamacare Laws Take Effect
The newly Republican-controlled House will face a massive task immediately when it gets to work in January. Major planks of Obamacare, the nation’s new healthcare law, go into effect on Jan. 1 even as key regulations are being challenged in a federal lawsuit. But polls are showing elements of the law are increasingly unpopular, and states are reporting that high premiums in new insurance programs are turning away even the uninsured.FULL STORY
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Republicans will try to withhold funding for the new law, beating it back one appropriation at a time. Democrats will fight these moves, of course. And making the GOP effort more difficult is the fact that Democrats front-loaded the law with several consumer-protection related provisions many voters support, according to polls.
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