A few days ago U.S. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said there would be a vote to repeal the healthcare law in the U.S. Senate. Ironically, he was correct. The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to repeal the healthcare law.

The “statement of purpose” for the vote was:

To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Nice wording…

The “procedural” vote failed in the U.S. Senate 47-51. It needed 60 votes to proceed. Two senators did not vote; Lieberman the Independent of Connecticut and Warner a Democrat of West Virginia.

I received several e-mails asking me to contact my Senators, Jon Tester and Max Baucus, and urge them to vote to repeal Obamacare. I did not make the calls, so their staffers can thank me later…

Tester and Baucus voted against repealing Obamacare. It is not known if Baucus has read the law, yet. Continue reading →