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50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law

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🗓️ 21 March 2013

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 21st, 2013. I'm Caleb Brown.

0:09.4

Even though it was mostly upheld by the US Supreme Court, President Obama's health care

0:14.0

law may be more vulnerable than ever.

0:16.5

So says Michael Cannon, in his new report, 50 vetoes, how states can stop the Obama

0:21.5

health care law.

0:24.1

So today it's actually the third anniversary of House Passage of the Patient Protection

0:29.2

and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. That's when we knew that this was going to become law

0:34.9

because House Passage was the big hurdle. And three years later, Republicans in

0:41.6

Congress are still pushing repeal.

0:44.0

You've got Ted Cruz, a freshman senator from Texas, leading the charge in the Senate.

0:49.0

Paul Ryan is assuming repeal as part of his big budget blueprint and Speaker of the House

0:55.9

John Boehner has said that there will be additional votes in the House to repeal

1:01.5

Obamacare. They've already had what 30 some votes already

1:05.4

They haven't succeeded yet and John Boehner said that there are going to be more they haven't given up on repeal

1:11.4

I think that's right not to give up on repeal. I think that's right not to give up on repeal because Obamacare

1:16.6

is going to make health care more costly and scarce, not more affordable and

1:21.6

and more accessible.

1:23.4

It's already making health care more costly.

1:26.1

And if it takes full effect in 2014,

1:28.8

a lot of people are going to see their premiums go up

1:31.3

by triple digits. 100% increases, 200% increases, and that's even after you

1:39.6

account for the subsidies that the law creates to hide the costs that Obamacare is going to impose on consumers.

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