Paul: We Probably Can't Get Rid of 'Obamacare'

Sen. Rand Paul says probably can't get rid of 'Obamacare,' might be able to make it 'less bad'        

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Paul: We Probably Can't Get Rid of 'Obamacare'

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. September 22, 2013 (AP)

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama's health care law probably can't be defeated or gotten rid of. And he's suggesting there is little he and other congressional Republicans can do to stop the law from taking effect.

Speaking to reporters Saturday at a gathering of Michigan Republicans, Paul says Republicans could use votes on measures in the House and in the Senate to come up with compromise legislation. But the Kentucky Republican says that time for that is running out.

An opponent of the law many call "Obamacare," Paul says he's acknowledging that, in his words, "we probably can't defeat or get rid of Obamacare." He says that working from the position of not funding the health care law might help render it, quote, "less bad."

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Paul: We Probably Can't Get Rid of 'Obamacare'

I agree with Paul's statement. Just like people like the tea Partiers couldn't get rid of Social Security during the 1930s and later couldn't get rid of Medicare either.

However, if you look at both programs today they hardly resemble the original legislation at all because they are so much more efficient and streamlined now. The same will happen with Obamacare over the next 50 years. You keep the things that work and get rid of those things that don't work and create fixes. The basic idea works it just needs to be refined now over the years.