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GOP says health care repeal stops a tax

House Republicans, stung by the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, are seizing on one wrinkle to bolster their election-year case for repeal the court's judgment that the penalty for failing to get insurance is a tax.

By Donna Cassata | Updated on July 11, 2012
House Ways and Means Committees Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., leads a hearing on the implications of the PPACA Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans, stung by the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, are seizing on one wrinkle to bolster their election-year case for repeal — the court’s judgment that the penalty for failing to get insurance is a tax.

The House has voted more than 30 times to scrap, defund or undercut the law since Obama signed it in March 2010, political moves that went nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Republican opponents cast the law as government overreach, socialized medicine and an unaffordable approach to the nation’s system of health care.

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