WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the House began debating a bill to repeal the health-care reform law, with a vote expected today, the Washington Post reports. With the House in Republican hands, passage of the repeal bill is expected, but predictably the bill will stall in the Senate.

Earlier this week, supporters and opponents of the repeal held news conferences on Capitol Hill, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi??s (D-CA) one about the hearing that the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee held featuring the testimony of seven ordinary Americans who have positively benefitted from the reform. Congressman Steve King (R-IA) also held a press conference with other House Republicans to receive repeal petitions numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

After the vote, the real work will begin on putting forth measures that have a chance of bipartisan support. First up, lawmakers are expected to move a bill to repeal an unpopular tax reporting requirement meant to raise an estimated $19.2 billion to help pay for the implementation of the law. Democrats as well as Republicans signal that they may support a measure introduced last year by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA). He introduced a bill this year (H.R. 4) that would simply repeal the provision requiring businesses to file a 1099 form with the IRS for every vendor to whom they pay more than $600 a year. The Senate has indicated that they will also take up this issue in a bipartisan manner.

Other issues NACS hopes to see the 112th Congress address include a repeal of the individual and employer mandates and an expansion of the "grandfathering" provisions that are supposed to let you keep the insurance you already have.