Republicans’ Obamacare search-and-destroy mission

By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Wednesday, July 10, 5:41 PM

Watching House Republicans’ latest complaint about Obamacare brings to mind the joke Woody Allen used to open “Annie Hall,” about two elderly women at a Catskills resort.

“Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one.

“Yeah, I know,” says the other. “And such small portions.”

Last week, the administration announced it was delaying by a year the implementation of one of Obamacare’s provisions, the requirement that large employers provide health insurance. You’d think the opposition party, which has spent four years denouncing the health-care reforms, would be delighted by the reprieve. But on Wednesday, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to condemn the administration — for incomplete enforcement of the law they hate.

“This committee intends to get an explanation,” proclaimed Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), chairman of the subcommittee holding the hearing. “This committee has serious questions about how and why this alarming decision was made, and the effect that delaying this key provision will have on other provisions of the law.”

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