Serious and Not-So-Serious Threats Facing Health Care Reform

The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives may vote this or next week to repeal the federal health care reform bill. The repeal will pass the House. And it will mean absolutely nothing. [Update: House leadership announced on Saturday all floor votes in the House may be delayed one week because of the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona last weekend.]

Not only do the Republicans not have a 60-vote majority to pass a similar repeal through the Senate, a repeal bill would never survive a presidential veto from the man who made health care reform a top agenda of his first two years in office.

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