After six years of vowing to repeal President Obama’s controversial healthcare law, Republicans may not be able to agree on which parts to keep and which to scrap.
Politico reported yesterday that disagreements within the GOP are making a successful repeal bill less and less likely. Some Republicans believe they should keep the law’s Medicare expansion and tax credits, while others, like Sen. Rand Paul, who walked out of a meeting with Rep. Paul Ryan, believe Obamacare should be thrown away entirely.
At this point, it isn’t clear that the GOP will be able to do what they’ve been promising for over half a decade. There may be no repeal bill this congressional session.
The American people have made their feelings about Obamacare crystal clear. But now it looks like the people’s representatives may not be willing to move past their disagreements and do what they’ve promised to do.
That’s why millions of Americans have turned to the Convention of States movement.
An Article V Convention of States can accomplish what D.C. politicians can’t. It can propose constitutional amendments that place real, effective limitations on the federal government and ensure that overreach like Obamacare never happens again. These amendments can clarify portions of the Constitution like the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause, which the courts have used to justify federal overreach and abuse (like Obamacare).
The best part? The people don’t have to rely on Congress to do it.
