Boehner: ‘Not a dime’ from GOP majority to fund health reform implementation

If a Republican majority can’t repeal health reform, they can at least assure “not a dime” to fund its implementation, House GOP leader John Boehner (Ohio) pledged.

Boehner said that while he could guarantee a bill would hit the floor under a GOP-controlled Congress to repeal the healthcare reforms President Obama signed into law earlier this year, if that fails, they would at least provide no more money.

“They’re not going to get one dime from us to hire these new federal employees to run this,” Boehner said in a town hall with constituents, as reported by the Fairfield Echo.

Republicans have made repealing healthcare a central part of their election year strategy, upon which Democrats have also seized in their election year messaging.

“I guarantee there will be a bill on the floor that will repeal the healthcare bill and replace it with common sense reforms,” Boehner said in the call.