Republican Sen. John Barrasso promised Sunday that there would be a Senate vote for the full repeal of Obamacare. But, he said, “The president in the White House will veto that.”
Barrasso appeared on “Meet the Press” and discussed the GOP’s plans for the healthcare law with host Chuck Todd. While he admitted that the vote on full repeal would be symbolic, he said they plan to drastically change it as much as possible.
“The priority is to repeal this health care law. It’s bad for patients, bad for the providers, the nurses and doctors who take care of them, and terrible for taxpayers. We are going to put on the president’s desk, at a minimum, stripping away the most damaging parts of the health care law. We’re going to resume the 40-hour work week, which is hurting people right now in losing some of their pay. We’re going to get rid of the employer mandate,” Barrasso said.
Todd pressed him to elaborate on what he though could actually get done by 2016.
“We will get on his desk for signature, bipartisan support, eliminating the tax on medical devices, the employer mandate, the 40-hour work week. We have bipartisan support for that. There have been votes on those bills in the House. Many Democrats have supported those efforts,” Barrasso said. “This health care law continues, the costs are crippling the middle class. The vice president in his message yesterday said, ‘Things are great.’ They are not.”
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