{"id":22178,"date":"2015-01-14T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22178"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:54:37","slug":"study-best-time-to-repeal-obamacare-might-be-year-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22178\/study-best-time-to-repeal-obamacare-might-be-year-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Best Time to Repeal ObamaCare Might be Year 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How important is the upcoming 2016 presidential election?<\/p>\n<p>According to research by political scientist Jordan Ragusa, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/DC-Decoder\/Decoder-Voices\/2015\/0113\/Handicapping-GOP-prospects-of-repealing-Obamacare-in-the-114th-Congress\" target=\"_blank\">most favorable time to repeal landmark legislation<\/a> like ObamaCare occurs about ten years after its passage.<\/p>\n<p>Since ObamaCare was passed in 2010, that means 2020 is the year repeal activity could be at its height.<\/p>\n<p>Ragusa\u2019s ten-year window is an average calculated over a fifty-year <a href=\"http:\/\/apr.sagepub.com\/content\/38\/6\/1015.abstract \" target=\"_blank\">study of repeal efforts of major laws<\/a>. In the context of ObamaCare, Ragusa\u2019s timeline makes perfect sense. Republicans don\u2019t have the supermajority in either chamber of Congress to override a certain veto from President Barack Obama. But if a Republican wins the presidency in 2016, all the GOP would need is a simple congressional majority to repeal any or all of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s important for Republicans in Congress to get whatever wins they can muster now to weaken ObamaCare before it does more damage. But changes in partisan control take time. When ObamaCare was passed Democrats were in complete control of the political branches. The earliest Republicans could be in such a position is January of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It will also take time for the GOP to coalesce around a comprehensive alternative to ObamaCare, which, according to Ragusa\u2019s data, shouldn\u2019t be too much of a concern as long as a repeal-and-replace bill is signed into law before the Republican president\u2019s first term expires.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of considerations to keep in mind when it comes to securing a free market alternative to ObamaCare. Lack of time to do it right isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How important is the upcoming 2016 presidential election? According to research by political scientist Jordan Ragusa, the most favorable time to repeal landmark legislation like ObamaCare occurs about ten years after its passage. Since ObamaCare was passed in 2010, that means 2020 is the year repeal activity could be at its height. Ragusa\u2019s ten-year window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,84,3308,35,1001],"class_list":["post-22178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-repeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22182,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions\/22182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}