Daschle: Obama ‘Must Be Reelected’ for Obamacare ‘to Survive’

Published July 9, 2012 3:06pm ET



Apparently thinking that, in our republic, the president unilaterally passes laws and the Supreme Court unilaterally decides whether or not we’ll keep them, President Obama has been telling the American people that “the law I passed [Obamacare] is here to stay.”  But former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle — Obama’s first choice as secretary of Health and Human Services — says that for Obamacare “to survive,” Obama “must be reelected.”

Daschle writes: “The final hurdle may be the biggest — the political aspect….Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal the law on his first day as president. If elected, while he cannot do this single-handedly, he can virtually stop its implementation with executive orders.” 

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