Senate Approves Bill To Repeal Obamacare And Defund Planned Parenthood

Nevertheless, Georgia’s Senators have been present, & both voted to gut the President’s marquee legislation.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi said in a debate that the PPACA was “unworkable, unaffordable, and more unpopular than ever”.

“Americans are living with the consequences of this broken law and its broken promises every day”, he added.

The Senate version of H.R. 3762 also would repeal the health law’s medical device tax and the so-called “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans.

All of the Democrats in the chamber opposed the bill, while Sens.

He called the vote “another important blow to Obamacare”.

“The nine-page reconciliation bill is a serious strike against the financial infrastructure of the Affordable Care Act”, Twila Brase, president and co-founder of CCHF, said. “Do they meet with them?” Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. “This vote is an important step toward lifting Obamacare’s burdensome regulations and lowering its costs for people across the country”, he said.

With just a 54-46 edge, Republicans had previously failed to push such legislation through the Senate. Independent senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, did not vote. Democrats in the Senate have blocked more than 60 previous Republican attempts aimed at rolling back the 2010 legislation created to provide health care for millions of uninsured Americans. It eliminates all penalties for people and companies who do not buy or offer insurance, according to The Hill. McConnell said Thursday that the Affordable Care Act is “punctuated with hopelessness”, as he blamed it for rising medical costs and problems encountered by Kentuckians.

Because the bill also strips funding from Planned Parenthood, Republican Sens. Johnson also says the federal exchange that Wisconsin uses has narrower and fewer choices for health policies.

The vote comes after anti-abortion activists released videos earlier this year allegedly showing organization officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue, which sent GOP officials and conservatives into an uproar. “What they got instead was the cold shoulder of indifference”. The White House has pledged that the president will veto it. “For years, Democrats prevented the Senate from passing legislation to do so”. “I’ll take that to the polls and we’ll talk about it until the cows come home”.

Republicans argued that voters were on their side.

But the bill still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives. “However, it does not repeal a majority of the 2,700-page law”.