Decade of defeats: The Republican failure to take down ObamaCare
Posted on AllSides June 18th, 2021
From The Right
The law that became Barack Obama’s presidential legacy and was dubbed "Obamacare," has been the scorn of Republican lawmakers since its passage in March 2010 – but the GOP has been unable to kill it.
Despite having a GOP-controlled House and Senate during the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, along with overwhelming Republican support to repeal the federal statute, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has remained largely intact.
The health insurance law survived its third major challenge over the last decade after the Supreme Court threw out the latest effort by 18 Republican-led states to kill...