Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged Saturday it is unlikely Republicans in Congress can repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
"We probably can't defeat or get rid of Obamacare," Sen. Paul told reporters.
Speaking to the press at a Republican conference on Mackinac Island, Michigan, the freshman senator from Kentucky conceded he doubts the House resolution passed Friday, which would defund the Affordable Care Act, could emerge from a Senate debate unscathed and unamended. One of the most vocal opponents of the Affordable Care Act, Paul holds hope that threatening to not pay for the legislative program could result in a finished product that's "less bad."
"In the end the sausage factory in Washington will make the sausage," Paul told the Detroit News.
Paul, whose potential as presidential contender in 2016 has been a subject of much speculation, admitted that absent a sudden and total alignment behind an approach to tackling the health care law, his caucus' "disunity" means Republicans will most likely fall short of canceling, or even delaying, the law from going into effect.
"Leverage doesn't work unless people believe you'll actually do something," Paul said. "The fact that Democrats don't believe we'll do anything, in the end they'll get what they want and a bill will be cobbled together."
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