Former President Barack Obama defends ACA ahead of vote on GOP replacement

Former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act stopped insurance companies from denying coverage for certain forms of care or to people with pre-existing conditions.

The bill will have to surmount steep political obstacles to become law.

After Trump was elected and the Republicans maintained control of both houses of Congress, it seemed inevitable that Obamacare would be repealed.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard opposed the measure, saying the U.S.is in need of health care reform. That means the legislation could have made it through the Senate with only 51 votes rather than the 60 normally required to overcome an expected filibuster, but limited the repeal to provisions of the ACA that have a revenue impact. We could have it different.

The repeal was also the subject of several tweets.

U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan departs after delivering remarks and taking questions at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol after President Trump’s healthcare bill was pulled from the floor of the House of Representatives March 24, 2017 in Washington, DC.

“We do need to fix these parts of Obamacare that did cost us votes in November”, said Moore. “The time is here, the time is now, this is the moment”.

I have long believed that increasing competition is key to fixing our health care system and lowering costs. Not surprisingly, it has been met with stiff opposition from AARP, the American Association of Hospitals and the American Medical Association.

The editorial’s authors estimate the impact of replacing the ACA with a universal, single-payer health system, along the lines of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676, would provide immediate coverage to the 26 million Americans who are now uninsured, saving at least 20,984 lives in year one.

While Ryan acknowledged American Care Act, also known as Obamacare, remains “the law of the land”, Hultgren said in his statement that “maintaining the status quo is simply unacceptable”.

We don’t have it with the ACA or the GOP’s American Health Care Act, but something better is achievable. Why the House Republicans want to force millions of self-employed Americans like me back into the pre-Obamacare non-insured system is beyond me. Judging by my Facebook news feed, the feeling that President Trump and his administration have failed to follow through on a campaign promise is abundant.

So, when the problems started with the implementation of Obamacare, we should not really have been surprised. Randy Hultgren said the health care system remains broken and “doing nothing isn’t an option”.

“I can’t put a percentage on it, but a lot of “Obamacare” can be undone through executive order”. During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”, the governor said he is specifically concerned about coverage for the most “vulnerable” – including the chronically ill, people with serious drug addictions, and the mentally ill.

Two days before the scheduled healthcare vote, the House Majority Leader was touting the passage of the repeal.