The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has frequently voted to defund the health-care law.
But the effort has been blocked in the Democratically-controlled Senate and would be vetoed by the president.
Obama was asked about the defunding effort during a recent news conference. He said, “The idea that you would shut down the government unless you prevent 30-million people from getting health care is a bad idea.”
Congressional Democrats are also fighting the idea of defunding the law, including House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
“I think they are aimless," she said. "I think they are chaotic and I think they are making matters worse for the American people when we should be resolving this.”
A number of senior Republicans in both the House and Senate also oppose the effort to defund and the issue has become a point of division within the party. But Republican congressional leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, remain noncommittal.
“And I am confident that when we get into the fall we will find that it may be a messy process, but I suspect we will find a way to get there,” he said.
The move to defund Obamacare is being driven by Tea Party activists, says analyst David Hawkings of Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Congress.
“Conservative Republicans, the Tea Party Republicans have been itching for a fight ever since they got here in 2011. ... There are still a solid number of Republicans in the House especially who are itching for that kind of a confrontation and think they will win it,” he said.
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