Obamacare stands

A cornerstone of the Republican leadership's platform in 2010 was the promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare."

The House has now voted more than 30 times to repeal part or all of the law, most recently on July 11, 2012. Republican opponents of the law were newly fired up by the Supreme Court decision upholding it. They took their zeal to the House floor, where the repeal passed 244 to 185, with five Democrats joining Republicans in support of repeal.

But like every other attempt before it, this one is doomed in the Senate. Eight days after the House vote, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid blocked a repeal vote, which was offered by Republicans as an amendment to a jobs bill.

"The chances of (a repeal) passing the senate are zero. Sen. Reid will never bring it to the floor,” Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson told PolitiFact. "But in the Senate (unlike the House) there are things the minority can do to force votes on its priorities. So I can't say for certain it will never get a vote, but I can say for certain it will never pass. It has already failed here once.”

And even if a repeal bill did survive Congress, President Barack Obama would surely veto it.

Attempts at piecemeal repeal are similarly stalled. In March, House Republicans passed a bill aimed at limiting medical malpractice lawsuits that also included a repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created by the health care law to limit Medicare spending. It's widely derided by Republicans, including Sarah Palin who famously dubbed it a "death panel.” That measure too is unlikely to get a hearing in the Senate -- let alone pass.

With the current makeup of Congress, the House GOP isn't getting anywhere trying to undo health care reform. We rate it a Promise Broken.