There was no formal announcement but House Republican leaders sent a note to members saying there would be no more votes Wednesday, The Hill reported.
The newspaper reported Republican aides said they would try to bring the bill back to the House in May.
The legislation was pushed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor but ran into tough conservative opposition, Politico reported.
Politico said the bill would transfer money from a preventative disease account to create high-risk pools for sick Americans. President Barack Obama has said he would likely veto the bill.
Before the withdrawal, conservatives said they want to tell voters they tried to scrap Obamacare and were demanded a floor vote to repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law.
The conservatives are frustrated by the Republican leadership’s decision to push legislation that changes but doesn’t eliminate President Obama’s signature law, The Hill reported.
“The guys who have been up here the last two years, we can go home and say, ‘Listen, we voted 36 different times to repeal or replace Obamacare.’ Tell me what the new guys are supposed to say?” second-term Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., asked Wednesday.
The Hill said after two years in which House Republicans voted nearly every week to repeal part or all of Obamacare, the Republican leadership shifted strategy after Obama was re-elected in November, but hardliners were still calling for full repeal.
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
I don’t know why people think this idiot running the country can make people buy his Obama care don’t you people think if people could afford insurance they would have it ? and yes I have insurance and pay for it on my limited income. We need to help and take care of our country but yet we have a guy like Obama that isn’t even an American make decisions for us.
The Republicans had better wake up or they will lose the next election too. The word they should be looking for is COMPROMISE.
Thats what did it in 2012. Lets just get another moderate to run. You want to excite the base and get them to vote? Stand on your core principles of conservatism. Let see the left seems to run more left each and every election, obamacare, amnesty, entitlement programs you name it farther left they go. Republicans move more to the center and left of center to appease the polls and talking points of the left and the bias of the media. You want to excite conservatism be conservative both financially and socially get people to realize once again that government is not the first thing you look to for a paycheck. Hence Nanny state.
@OMG-won’t happen. You need to get real. The country has changed and the Republicans had better change with it. Not everyone is a believer in churches any more so you had better get off the bible kick or you will lose.