Senators take aim at ObamaCare with 85 proposed healthcare amendments

Senate Republicans are determined to destroy ObamaCare. While the 85 proposed amendments to the healthcare law are largely symbolic, they serve as an indicator of lawmakers' priorities.

Included among the amendments proposed by Republican senators are attempts to fully repeal ObamaCare, ban any ObamaCare marketing, and make Medicaid a matter of states' control.

Senate Democrats, for their part in the epic all-day voting session, will try to protect the Affordable Care Act by making it less easy for the budget to affect the bill and by increasing funding to the IRS in order to enforce ObamaCare.

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