Action Alert
ObamaCare/ACA Repeal - The First Step in Repeal and Replace
The Senate recently voted to take the first official step toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care law. The 51-48 vote was a procedural motion to start debate on a budget resolution that Republicans hope will result in overhauling the Affordable Care Act. The budget resolution is the first in a two-part process to repeal Obamacare.
For Repealing the Health Care Law
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) "Americans deserve better than a law that is harmful to our economy, harmful to job creation, and absolutely detrimental to our healthcare system. Since this disastrous law was implemented more than four years ago, I have led the fight in the halls of Congress to stop it. I have voted more than 60 times to repeal, dismantle, and defund ObamaCare, a step towards victory for all Americans and job creators across the country. ObamaCare is the most significant intrusion into the physician-patient relationship that our nation has ever experienced. It is plagued with reduced Medicare benefits for our nation's seniors, costly mandates on individuals as well as businesses, increases in our national deficit, and increased taxes for all…I believe we must have a system that encourages the doctor-patient relationship, allows doctors and patients more freedom to decide patient treatment, and have the ability to select from which doctors they wish to receive treatment. I remain committed to advancing pro-patient, conservative solutions to the healthcare crisis President Obama created."
Those Against the Repeal
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) “The budget resolution introduced today by Senate Republicans represents a brazenly cynical use of the federal budget process to advance the political aim of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Ignoring a deficit of over $1 trillion – and rising – at the end of the next decade, this resolution flies in the face of the intent of budget reconciliation, which is supposed to be used to reduce the deficit...The Senate Republicans’ budget resolution is expressly written for the purpose of setting up a repeal of the Affordable Care Act in the absence of a replacement. Such a repeal would cause 30 million Americans to lose health care coverage and tens of millions to see their costs go up. Furthermore, all Americans would be at risk of losing the protection of the Affordable Care Act’s rules that ban discrimination against women and those with pre-existing conditions and prohibitions on annual and lifetime coverage limits. This is not a real budget resolution but instead a partisan messaging instrument that will harm American families."
