article_snippet: (CNN)The debate over health care reform once again blooms in D.C., but this time Democrats and the President whose legacy rests on the Affordable Care Act are tending a garden challenged by some rather invasive species.
article_snippet: the GOP the GOP has kicked off the GOP season by pulling Obamacare up by the roots in the GOP proposed 2016 House budget.
article_snippet: But its proposed 2016 House budget will not become law.
article_snippet: Either scenario would mortally wound Obamacare.
article_snippet: Obamacare may poison the GOP's standing with 16.4 million Americans who will face adverse, even dire consequences without legislative patches to the law, or a swift switch to a solid alternative health care policy.
article_snippet: This week, the conservative weekly The Washington Examiner aimed to mark Obamacare's fifth anniversary by asking a panel whether to "reform, replace or restart" the law.
article_snippet: Obamacare isn't a work of art by any means.
highlights_snippet: With Ford budget proposal to kill Obamacare, or hopes the Supreme Court will do the same, the GOP makes a mistake .
  