WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the Budget Committee chairman introduced a resolution to provide for Obamacare repeal and set a path forward for a replacement. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a member of the Budget Committee, made the following comment.
“Obamacare over-promised and under-delivered. With every year, it’s been sinking deeper, and the ship is on the brink of capsizing. People were promised more choice, lower costs, and the ability to keep the doctors and health care plans they knew and liked. The opposite is true. I’ve heard from Iowans about the high cost of premiums, copayments and deductibles. Obamacare is too expensive for people to use. In Iowa, 13 rural counties will have just one health insurance plan participating in their area this year. Statewide, premium increases for participants will be 19 percent to 43 percent. Small businesses lost one of their most popular ways to help employees with their health insurance premiums, something I just successfully fought to reverse.
“The resolution introduced today is the first step in repealing a collapsing program and replacing it with policies that work for working families. Congress should work on more ways to encourage employers to offer good health care coverage to their employees. We’ll aim to crack down on frivolous lawsuits, let people purchase insurance across state lines, improve transparency in health care prices, give states more freedom to improve Medicaid and use consumer choice to drive competition, which drives down costs. Health care coverage, affordability and quality are critical to quality of life. At every step of this process, I plan to keep in mind how Congress and the incoming president can best deliver for the millions of Americans counting on us to act to repeal Obamacare while protecting access to medical care for all Americans.”
Meanwhile, Iowa Congressman Steve King released the following statement after introducing at the start of the 115th Congress his full, 100% repeal of Obamacare:
“In the wake of the presidential election it has become abundantly clear that the American people have overwhelmingly rejected Obamacare time and time again,” said King. “Now that Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate as well as a Trump presidency, we must take swift action to fulfill our promise to We the People and repeal this unconstitutional and egregious law passed by hook, crook and legislative shenanigan. My bill is the answer to this nightmare: full 100% repeal of ObamaCare ‘as if such Act had not been enacted’.
Since the botched implementation of ObamaCare, millions of people have had their health insurance plans cancelled because their grandfathered plans were in violation of ObamaCare’s ‘essential health benefits.’ Since the beginning, I knew this would be the outcome, and my first order of business on the morning after ObamaCare passed into law, March 24, 2010, I drafted and then introduced the full, 100% repeal of ObamaCare. I have consistently reintroduced the same magic 40 word repeal bill, and this very language has passed the House several times.
I believe Obamacare should be ripped out by the roots, and I will not stop fighting until we have successfully done just that.”
To view the original bill text, click here.
King also introduced a bill to forbid the Supreme Court from citing Obamacare in its rulings.
“By prohibiting the Supreme Court from citing ObamaCare cases, we will be truly eradicating this unconstitutional policy from all three branches of government so that the repeal will be complete. Furthermore, we must work to restore Article I authority and the Rule of Law by ensuring Congress is the only entity of our government making or changing laws.”
To view the original bill text, click here.
Republican don’t get the truth,they act like being president is BULLY PULPIT.By their actions now,They will be doomed in 2020.Republicans forget they got us in the Gulf war in the first place.They started the sh*t rolling down hill.People forget what happened and think it will just go to away.Country run by Billionaires the average person is in real trouble but everyone glosses over this fact.
What needs to be done it put Congress on same insurance as General public and they can get some knowledge on what we have been putting up with for years,not just your so called Obama years.Taxpayer has always paid for medical some way or another,people go to hospital with no insurance plan,guess who pays we all do.The problem is both sides need to grow up and act like they have some sense of what being human beings really means.Some think Trump is your Savior,well I quess we will live and learn over the next 4years.Seems like we are in for one big side show it all show and no real substance.Watch the Trump doct.on PBS and you may have a very different look at what Trump is as a person.Just still can’t believe he will be Pres.Where are all the people who have good things to say about him,instead of people just kissing his *ss that say good things.Think about it he is a very lonely person and he will be leading America in this World,that is a whole lot worse then OBama care could ever be OWN IT REPUBLICANS!
No, it took a majority of senators and representatives to get it done and it isn’t done yet. Let’s hope they find something to replace it as they phase it out. Just throwing it out will jeopardize millions of Americans.
If that is true why did it take so long?
It’s about damn time. It took Trump to make it happen.
Your medicare is next on the chopping block.
That would be political suicide and they know it.
This has nothing to do with Medicare
How uninformed are you? Without the Affordable Healthcare Act, Medicare recipients would be paying another $700 year. If the under 65 group has no right to insurance, why should you????
And you are a blooming idiot.
What a Dumb Ass. The only thing Medicare has gained was the donut hole closing. But they just raised the price of drugs to offset that.
Because we paid for it and you haven’t.