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House Vote to Repeal ObamaCare Is More than Mere Symbolism


The symbolism of today’s House vote is striking. Within a year of ObamaCare’s enactment, the House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to repeal it.

That didn’t happen with Social Security. It didn’t happen with Medicare. Social Security and Medicare did not face sustained public opposition from the moment they were introduced in Congress. They did not pass by one vote, in the dead of night. They were not challenged as unconstitutional by half the states in the union.  They were not struck down as unconstitutional by a federal court within a year of enactment.

The House vote to repeal ObamaCare is just the latest sign that ObamaCare goes too far, that it creates a more intrusive government than the American people are willing to accept. But the House vote is not mere symbolism, as the Obama administration would have us believe.


Read the rest of the article by Michael F. Cannon
at Cato-at-Liberty.org

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies.


Filed by Grant Davies,
Regular Columnist, THL
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