Repeal of ACA may be illegal?

Posted: Nov 11, 2014

Does Josh Gruber's admission there was "lack of transparency" bother me personally? Sure it does. But considering most members of congress were lawyers previously, which are pretty much like glorified used car salesmen, this is not exactly a news scoop. In the clips I saw, Gruber also said that though he wished things had been done differently, it WAS important we pass this law, as well as there was virtually no difference between Romneycare and Obamacare. Even if the House could get Senate to pass repeal now, Obama would veto it. And the problem with passing it in the house is that it may be illegal to do so. The article in the link below purports that per Senate law passed in 1974 called the Byrd Rule, it is illegal to repeal any law if the cost of doing so would increase the budget deficit to do so, among other restrictions. I've never read news from this site before, but the Byrd Rule does check out. So, just stating the obvious, but why would we want to do anything that increases the budge deficit when that's the whole point? And do we really want to repeal the entire thing anyway or just fix the problems? If so, and it stays within budget, then there may be a shot.;