Mo Brooks' "Obamacare Repeal Act"
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The Obamacare Repeal Act was introduced by Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on March 24, 2017, the same day the American Health Care Act of 2017 was pulled from consideration before a scheduled vote. The bill contained two provisions, each one sentence long, to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. The bill did not contain any measures to replace the ACA's provisions.
How could the bill be passed?
After he filed the Obamacare Repeal Act, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) stated that he would consider attempting to collect signatures for a discharge petition to force a vote on the bill. In the U.S. House of Representatives, a discharge petition is a motion to end committee consideration of a bill and move it to the House floor for a full vote. A bill must have been under committee consideration for 30 days before signatures for a discharge petition may begin to be collected. The petition needs 218 signatures to be eligible for consideration, after which it is subject to debate for 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for support and 10 minutes for opposition. If the petition is adopted, the House must immediately consider the bill in question. According to Politico, it is unclear whether such a petition for the Obamacare Repeal Act could garner 218 signatures.[1][2]
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Summary
Representative Mo Brooks' (R-Ala.) Obamacare Repeal Act would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its entirety. The bill contained two provisions, each one sentence long. The first provision would repeal the ACA and the second would repeal the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which amended the ACA. The bill did not contain any measures to replace the ACA's provisions. The sections of law that were amended by the ACA and the reconciliation act would instead simply revert to the language that was in place prior to their passage.[3]
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