 gop to fight health law with purse strings the late senator robert byrd a democrat from west virginia characterized the purse strings as one of the most effective bulwarks ever constructed to thwart the efforts of an overreaching executive and it s the method house republicans intend to use to cut obamacare off at the knees some believe that provisions in the act are intended to cause employers to stop offering health care as a means of making the singlepayer system they so desperately want a necessity without the votes needed to repeal it outright republicans can pull funding for obamacare s implementation and block the regulations needed for its execution which will in effect stop it in its tracks read more at  wwwnytimescom 20101107 health policy 07healthhtml 116  