摘要：共和黨準備用大法官得判決來全盤否定醫改。既然大法官說醫改是稅，隻要GOP拿回參議院得多數席位，就能免掉那稅。合理合法。
GOP's New Health-Law Front
Party to Seek Repeal of Key Provision After Supreme Court Upheld Law as a Tax
Republicans are planning to use the main component of the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama's health-care law as a weapon to try to repeal it.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision last week, validated the health law by saying its penalty on citizens who fail to hold health insurance should be treated as a tax. The decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, circumvented the issue of whether the law was proper under Congress's constitutional right to regulate commerce among the states.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to try to repeal the law on the ground it is a tax.
A quirk of Senate rules lets some tax and spending bills come to a vote under a fast-track procedure called budget reconciliation that prevents filibusters. It allows the bills to pass with a 51-vote majority instead of the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
Should the GOP gain a handful of Senate seats in November, the party plans to use the tactic to try to knock down the health law. Republicans currently hold 47 of the Senate's 100 seats.
"Look, reconciliation is available because the Supreme Court has now declared it a tax," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said on "Fox News Sunday." "They have unearthed the massive deception that was practiced by the president and the Democrats, constantly denying it was a tax."
