Lee Applauds Senate Passage of Obamacare Repeal Bill
WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT issued the following statement Thursday after the Senate passed an Obamacare repeal bill through reconciliation.
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"Today the Republican Party took a huge step down the road to repeal Obamacare. I applaud leadership for their steadfast efforts over the past days and weeks, and I commend the Senate Budget Committee for their tireless work in crafting a reconciliation package that doesn’t just tinker around Obamacare’s edges, but lays the ground work for it to be erased from the books altogether."
Hatch Lauds Senate Passage of First Ever Obamacare Repeal
“Obamacare has been a disaster for Utah families. Premiums have spiked 22 percent this year alone, and tens of thousands have lost their health insurance with the failure of the Arches Health Plan. I have fought President Obama’s big-government healthcare debacle since its inception. Today’s historic action by the Senate is a critical step in ultimately repealing Obamacare, and replacing it with commonsense, patient-centered reform that works for Utahns and all Americans."
WASHINGTON – For the first time, the U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday repealing President Obama’s signature healthcare law, fulfilling a key promise of the new Republican majority. As Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the committee charged with overseeing much of the law, Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, played a critical role in crafting the measure and praised its passage as an important step toward repealing and replacing Obamacare.
“Obamacare has been a disaster for Utah families. Premiums have spiked 22 percent this year alone, and tens of thousands have lost their health insurance with the failure of the Arches Health Plan. I have fought President Obama’s big-government healthcare debacle since its inception. Today’s historic action by the Senate is a critical step in ultimately repealing Obamacare, and replacing it with commonsense, patient-centered reform that works for Utahns and all Americans."
Earlier this week, Hatch delivered a floor speech making the case for repealing the President’s healthcare law.
Hatch, a longtime opponent of Obamacare, has fought the President’s health care law on a variety of fronts. During the debate on its initial passage, Hatch helped to lay the groundwork in the Congressional Record for the court challenge to the unconstitutional individual mandate. To address some of the law’s most pernicious elements, the Utah senator has led legislative efforts to repeal the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and the medical device tax. As Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Hatch has led rigorous oversight of numerous aspects of the law and the botched implementation of its various programs. Along with Senator Richard Burr and Congressman Fred Upton, Hatch has authored a replacement plan for Obamacare—the Patient CARE Act—that replaces the President’s failed policies with commonsense, patient-centered reform.
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