It takes 60 Senate votes to overcome a Presidential veto.  When did the Republicans have that many votes in the last eight years?  I must have missed that!

How do you expect to get the American Medical Association to cut their member's incomes in half so that they are paid the same as all those European physicians?

http://www.worldsalaries.org/generalphysician.shtml

How about all the other health care professionals?  They are going to take that kind of reduction and be unable to afford their homes, cars and life styles?

I think not.