Rep. Brat: GOP Listened to American People, Voted its Values, and Sent Obamacare Repeal to President's Desk

Statement

For the first time ever, both chambers of Congress have approved a major repeal measure of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA,) the health care law commonly referred to as Obamacare.

The Senate amendment to H.R. 3762, Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, passed with 240 votes in favor and repeals both of Obamacare's massive new entitlement programs, rendering the unconstitutional employer and employee mandates toothless, and repealing many of Obamacare's burdensome new taxes. It will cut the federal deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, and save taxpayers $516,000,000,000 over the next decade.

The bill will delay several key provisions of the ACA including the Cadillac and medical devices tax and IPAB. It will also restrict federal funding for Planned Parenthood and its affiliates and clinics and scrap the Prevention and Public Health Fund. This is the first time a bill has reached the President's desk that defunds both the ACA and Planned Parenthood.

"Today Republicans showed unity, listened to the American people, and voted our values by sending this bill to President Obama's desk," said Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.). "I'm pleased a bill has reached the President's desk that addresses the spiraling and unsustainable costs, the unconstitutional overreach, and the massive disruption to health care choices that Obamacare has wrecked on American families."

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