What You Really Need To Know About Obamacare Because Its Not Dead Yet
This article is better viewed on the website imo
http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/really-need-know-obamacare-not-dead-yet/1751015/
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What the Senate Voted on
Fifty-one Republican senators won a majority-rules procedure to pass a budget resolution, which is the first step in the GOP’s round-about plan to dismantle key parts of Obamacare.
Here’s how it works.
A budget resolution outlines how the country should spend its money (think resolving to stick to a certain budget). After the Senate passes the resolution, the baton is passed and the resolution makes its way to the House of Representatives for approval.
The key part in that baton passing is for the Senate to write an instruction for reconciliation. This literally instructs the House to reconcile (or change) certain laws in ways that will fall in line with the budget.
Now, take a wild guess which laws Congress will target? That’s right, the key laws included in Obamacare.
Now, you might be asking why Republicans didn’t try to do things this way already. The answer is, they did. Thing is, though, their efforts require a president’s seal of approval.
So you already know what Obama did (and what Hillary would have done) when the majority-Republican House and Senate tried to take down his signature law.
Veto.
But with Trump in town, the idea is that the three Republican-led authorities of government (House, Senate and President) will work together to make things happen.
Where We Go From Here
The next step on the list is for Paul Ryan and co. in Congress to pass the budget the Senate just gave them. That’s pretty much a given, and will probably be done Friday.
The next step is for them to actually write the bill that will strike whatever parts of the Affordable Care Act they choose. The budget resolution the Senate just passed instructs them to do so by January 27.
So the next two weeks will be interesting to watch.
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