Tax writer Dave Camp wages own battle of sorts against Obamacare

Tax writer Dave Camp wages own   battle of sorts against Obamacare
  By: Brian Faler
  November 13, 2013 05:03 AM EST

Dave Camp is waging a different sort of battle against Obamacare.

His Republican colleagues are finally getting traction in   undercutting the president’s signature health-care law, and that’s proving to   be unexpectedly bad news for the Ways and Means Chairman.

That’s because some of his fellow Republicans now don’t want him   to release his long-awaited tax reform bill for fear it will allow Democrats   to change the subject. They want the public’s focus on people who have lost   their health insurance and those having trouble signing up at healthcare.gov, and not on what will surely be a   controversial tax-reform bill.

It’s a cruel bit of timing for Camp, who’s spent three years,   almost since the day Republicans took control of the House, trying to build   support for the first tax overhaul in a generation. He’s repeatedly promised   his panel would take up legislation this year, and if it doesn’t soon, Camp –   who faces term-limit restrictions on his chairmanship – may never get the   chance.

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