Fulfilling the Republican majority's campaign promise, the House of Representatives voted this afternoon to repeal President Obama's healthcare bill. The repeal effort will likely get nowhere in the Democratically-controlled Senate.

The vote was scheduled for last week, but was postponed because of the shooting in Tucson.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the repeal effort is part of Republicans' attempts to emphasize their differences with the Obama administration regarding health care policy.

 House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R, Va.) said the health-care law "is detrimental to job creation in this country; we believe that it's bad for the economy; and we are going to begin to deliver on proposing alternatives."

Republicans have also said that they would find other ways of blocking healthcare reform in case the repeal effort fails, including taking away necessary funding.

Another option is challenging the individual insurance mandate portion of the law in court, like 25 states are currently doing. Opponents say that requiring a person to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.

Still, most experts say that repealing healthcare entirely is a long shot.

"Republicans need to ask themselves whether they want to impede implementation of a law that they disagree with but that they cannot stop," said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a research group.