FOXNews.com: Republicans hint at long-term strategy: ObamaCare website only 'tip of the iceberg'

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Republicans hint at long-term strategy: ObamaCare website only 'tip of the iceberg' Oct 27th 2013, 19:00 Published October 27, 2013 FoxNews.com Republicans lawmakers on Sunday signaled that their efforts to dismantle ObamaCare will go well beyond criticizing the problem-filled website, saying computer glitches are only the "tip of the iceberg" for the federal health care plan. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told "Fox News Sunday" that creating and running a website on which millions of Americans can shop for and buy an insurance policy is "the easy part." "The real problems will be when it's time to schedule your grandmother's cancer surgery," said Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a potential 2016 presidential candidate. Republicans have largely opposed President Obama's signature health care initiative long before it was signed into law in 2010 -- using Americans' concerns about the massive government undertaking to help retake the House in 2010. More recent efforts -- including using voter dissatisfaction with ObamaCare to win the 2012 presidential election and this month's partial shutdown of the government -- have failed. However, conservatives say they fully intend to chip away at the law straight through 2016 when they'll try again to elect a Republican president who will repeal the law. Jindal also told Fox News the bigger issue with problems like those related to ObamaCare website are that they are almost inevitable when the federal government gets too big. "This is symptomatic of a liberal ideology that believes government should be running our health care," he said. "We don't need the government running health care." Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso told ABC's "This Week" that the website issues "are just the tip of the iceberg." "There are bigger problems to come," he said. Among the concerns of Barrasso and others is the millions of dollars taxpayers spent on a slow, crash-prone website and the public backlash when Americans who tried but failed to sign up for insurance must pay a tax penalty in March, while the president has exempted businesses from having to pay. "It has Americans saying, " 'Why do I have to pay a penalty,' " Barrasso said. Critics also argue some Americans will be forced to dropping existing policies for more expensive, ObamaCare-approved ones, despite the president vowing that people could keep the insurance they liked and had.   "It's all just not true," Barrasso said. Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the problem with ObamaCare is that it doesn't control costs. "It drives up cost for Ohioans," he said. "It threatens businesses to grow over 50 employees. The economy is stalled." FOX NEWS FIRST NEWSLETTER Daily must-read stories from the biggest name in politics Today Hillary builds her liberal firewall

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