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WASHINGTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Republicans launched their latest, doomed try to kill President Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care overhaul on Tuesday. With no chance of succeeding, the House vote was solely an exercise in election-year political messaging.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vote was an attempt to override Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s veto last month of legislation gutting much of the law and ending federal payments to Planned Parenthood. Republicans had no chance of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to reverse a veto, but Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the effort would send an important signal.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re proving today is if we have a Republican president next year, we will repeal Obamacare,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ryan told reporters, using a nickname for a law that GOP lawmakers have despised since it was pushed through Congress six years ago.<\/p>\n
Ryan also said the GOP will offer its own proposal this year for replacing the law, saying it would lower costs and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153restore the doctor-patient relationship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Republicans have criticized the law for increasing medical costs and giving patients less control over their care, charges Democrats dispute.<\/p>\n
The GOP has struggled for years to coalesce behind a replacement plan.<\/p>\n
Democrats mocked the GOP for trying yet again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and on Groundhog Day, no less \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to kill or curb the law. Democrats said Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vote marked the 62nd such effort since Republicans took control of the House in 2011, and cited estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that the rollback would end medical care for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a historically callous action,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.<\/p>\n
Van Hollen also said Republicans had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a lot of gall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to try blocking Planned Parenthood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s federal money a week after a grand jury in Texas found no wrongdoing by the organization and instead indicted anti-abortion activists who had secretly filmed videos of the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s officials.<\/p>\n
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