The House on Friday approved a bill to let insurance companies sell health plans that had previously been canceled due to ObamaCare regulations, a day after President Obama moved unilaterally to fix the problem.
The bill passed 261-157. Thirty-nine Democrats crossed over to support the GOP-backed legislation. (Click for the vote breakdown.)
The bill would go a step further than the plan Obama announced on Thursday, by allowing insurance companies to sell the old plans to customers who previously had them, as well as new customers, for another year. Obama's plan would only apply to those customers enrolled in the plans before the cancellation notices went out.
But Republicans, in bringing the bill to the floor on Friday, raised the broader concern that Obama might not have the authority to make those changes on his own. House Speaker John Boehner said he's "highly skeptical that they can do this administratively."
Further, sponsor Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., questioned whether Obama could simply reverse course a few weeks or months down the road. Upton told Fox News that his bill is a "better answer -- because who knows how his executive order is going to be tested?"
The White House has already vowed to veto the House bill, suggesting it goes too far. Before the vote, Republicans turned away a Democratic alternative that would have pared back the GOP bill.
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