Cantor Brings Obamacare Up For Repeal Vote, Again

Once again the House will be voting to repeal the 2010 health-care reform law commonly known as Obamacare. The move was announced by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-VA., on his Twitter account Wednesday.

"It just keeps getting worse. I'm scheduling a vote for next week on the full repeal of #Obamacare," Cantor said via Twitter.

According to the Washington Post, the vote is not intended to actually repeal the bill. Instead it is being brought up so that first term Republican lawmakers will have the opportunity to tell their constituents that they voted against the controversial health-care bill.

Cantor, who makes the schedule for the House, has focused the recent session on his "making life work" agenda that takes on kitchen table issues as opposed to cutting federal spending, according to The Washington Post. One of these initiatives was the "Helping Sick Americans Now" bill that Cantor had championed.

The bill would have allowed people with preexisting conditions to buy into an insurance pool before the coverage from Obama's health bill would kick in. Cantor was unable to convince Republicans to support the bill and he was forced to pull it before it came to a vote.

"Fiscal conservatives should be squarely focused on repealing Obamacare, not strengthening it by supporting the parts that are politically attractive," Andy Roth, vice president of Club for Growth said.

Cantor argued that helping sick people was a worthy cause regardless of political affiliation.

"This is the right thing to do," Cantor said. "We're trying to find solutions here."

Voting to repeal Obamacare has become a favorite past time of lawmakers. Depending on who is doing the counting this will be somewhere between the 33^rd and 37^th time that the unpopular health-care bill has been brought up for repeal in one form or another, according to the Washington Post. The count is in dispute because the attempts to undermine the bill have not always been straight forward as politicians have been making their best attempts to do away with the law.