Republicans lawmakers signaled that their efforts to dismantle ObamaCare will go well beyond criticizing the problem-filled website, saying computer glitches are only the “tip of the iceberg” for the federal health care plan.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told “Fox News Sunday” that creating and running a website on which millions of Americans can shop for and buy an insurance policy is “the easy part.”
“The real problems will be when it’s time to schedule your grandmother’s cancer surgery,” said Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
Republicans have largely opposed President Obama’s signature health care initiative long before it was signed into law in 2010 -- using Americans’ concerns about the massive government undertaking to help retake the House in 2010.
More recent opposition -- including the attempt to use voter dissatisfaction with ObamaCare to win the 2012 presidential election and more recently trying to "defund" ObamaCare -- have failed.
However, conservatives say they fully intend to chip away at the law straight through 2016 when they’ll try again to elect a Republican president who will repeal the law.
Jindal also told Fox News the bigger issue is that problems like those related to the ObamaCare website are almost inevitable when the federal government gets too big.
“This is symptomatic of a liberal ideology that believes government should be running our health care," he said. “We don’t need the government running health care.”
Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso told ABC’s “This Week” that the website issues “are just the tip of the iceberg.”
“There are bigger problems to come,” he said.
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Editor's Note: I don't believe the attempt to defund Obamacare failed as stated in the article. It was understood by those involved that defunding Obamacare was a longshot. The goal was to bring more attention to the issue, and divorce the Republicans from being at fault as the Democrats had been trying to pin on them regarding the failures of the massive government undertaking. In that sense, what Ted Cruz and Mike Lee did was very successful.
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