Obama Vetoes Obamacare Bill
With little public fanfare, President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a Republican-crafted measure designed to repeal his signature health care overhaul. But Republican leaders are signaling their repeal push is far from over.In a statement, Obama said the health care overhaul “is working,” slamming the bill because it would “reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America.”“The Affordable Care Act includes a set of fairer rules and stronger consumer protections that have made health care coverage more affordable, more attainable, and more patient centered,” Obama added.The measure’s quiet death stood in sharp contrast to the very loud and public debate that has characterized the president’s health care push from conception to adoption to implementation. It also would have defunded Planned Parenthood, which was the subject of its own partisan uproar last year.“It’s no surprise that someone named Obama vetoed a bill repealing Obamacare,” Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis, said. “But we will hold a vote to override this veto, taking this process all the way to the end under the Constitution.Fewer than 24 hours after the Senate-approved measure cleared the House on a mostly party line vote, Ryan told reporters he could not think of a “better way” to start the year than sending Obama — for the first time — a bill to repeal his health care overhaul.
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