U.S. Congress passes law against Obama’s health care reform

The House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress passed a bill Wednesday that seeks to annul President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law from 2010 and pull the plug on federal funding for family planning centers.

The House approved the bill by 240181, with just two Republicans and one Democrat defying their respective party’s stances.

The bill had earlier cleared a blockade in the Senate.

The legislation’s next stop will be the Oval Office, where Obama is expected to veto the bill looking to repeal his health care law which now provides accessible health coverage to millions of people who previously lacked such access.

The legislation, moreover, plans to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood family planning centers, which account for around half of all abortions in the country.

“We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth: Obamacare doesn’t work,” said House speaker, Republican Paul Ryan, using the unofficial name for Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Democrats criticized the new legislation for not proposing an alternative for health care, and for aiming to deprive 16 million people of coverage who now enjoy medical insurance under Obamacare.

“I’ve never been able to understand the great zeal to take health care away from people,” said Democrat Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.