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"I think we have to see where this [health care] lawsuit that is working its way through the courts goes," he said. "I'm monitoring that pretty closely. The individual mandate, I think, we need to get an answer from the courts on that. ... I do think we may have a vote to repeal that provision some time in this Congress ... the individual mandate."
A chief plank of the 2010 GOP platform was to wipe the Affordable Care Act from the books and replace it with something else. The latter promise has long since dissipated. But Republican leadership still held on to the former -- attempting to attach repeal language, most recently, to the continuing resolution to fund the federal government.
Camp also threw a bit of cold water on the Medicare reforms included in Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposed 2012 budget. He said that legislation to turn Medicare into a voucher system would likely not get a hearing in his committee."
Health Care Repeal Is 'Dead,' Says Top Republican, Sights Turned To Repealing Individual Mandate
A chief plank of the 2010 GOP platform was to wipe the Affordable Care Act from the books and replace it with something else. The latter promise has long since dissipated. But Republican leadership still held on to the former -- attempting to attach repeal language, most recently, to the continuing resolution to fund the federal government.
Camp also threw a bit of cold water on the Medicare reforms included in Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposed 2012 budget. He said that legislation to turn Medicare into a voucher system would likely not get a hearing in his committee."
Health Care Repeal Is 'Dead,' Says Top Republican, Sights Turned To Repealing Individual Mandate
