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Posted on 10/09/2025 6:45:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is continuing his fight to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with the introduction of HR 114, which would “completely–and responsibly–repeal Obamacare.”
Biggs has been fighting for years to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, calling it “a disaster that never worked and only led to increased premiums across the country.”
One of the key issues underlying Biggs’ call for complete repeal of the ACA is that it has caused healthcare costs to skyrocket and is only affordable when it is heavily subsidized by the taxpayers.
In a post on Facebook earlier this week, Biggs noted that “Every single Republican campaigned on repealing Obamacare,” and added, “The GOP has no excuse to cave on this issue.”
Biggs had introduced HR 114 in January 2025, having previously introduced a similar repeal bill in the 118th Congress.
If his bill were to become law and the ACA were fully repealed, employers and their benefits advisors could see a return of medical underwriting in the fully insured small-group market.
Passage of HR 114 could also bring about the elimination of the federal rule banning annual or lifetime limits on coverage for essential health benefits and the federal rule requiring plans to keep children on their parents’ coverage up until age 26.
Biggs’ bill faces review by eight different committees, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Education and the Workforce Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, the House Administration Committee, the House Appropriations Committee and the House Rules Committee.
Critics of the ACA have long complained that Obamacare has not made their healthcare more affordable but instead has caused massive increases in premiums with those escalating costs being picked up by the taxpayers.
Republicans have taken considerable heat over the past 15 years for their failure to repeal Obamacare, even when having majorities in the House and Senate.
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MAGA is just what the doctor ordered!
But, I suppose the extra premium amounts paid by people for these unnecessary coverages allows others to be subsidized. No easy task with this one without angering a lot of people since the proverbial toothpaste is out of the tube.
It’s criminal!
Every last living democrat who voted for it should be hunted down.
bttt
How about making insurance a national product and not by state? Make it transportable and not hold people captive by state, what a concept! A national risk pool.
Obamacare must disappear but something logical and effective must replace it.
That was just my good fortune, though, and I have little doubt that the program is financially unsound and unsustainable.
I don’t remember all the gory details but,
Sen Cornyn teamed up with Harry Reid (against Ted Cruz) to remove one of the last hurdles to the final passage of Obamacare.
The rest is history which brings us to today...
Yep, it’s been a loser from the beginning. Remember how many taxpayer millions (wonder whose pocket that went into) just to have the online program unworkable. Then more taxpayer millions were given to get it up and running. What a loser! Then Congress and aides were exempted and got to keep their own healthcare. “Millions for tribute but not a penny for charity”. (Yeah, it’s a reversal of the old adage.)
It was set up to fail and go to European style single payor.
The irony drips. Biggs from AZ trying to do what McCain from AZ refused to do.
I’ll die hating John McCain.
That is how cowards lose. You can’t replace crap with nice smelling crap.
Too late, he didn’t talk to McLame in 2017.
The health insurance system as it is currently set up is a complete failure.
Hey Andy, that was the whole idea of it in the first place. It was always designed to bring about single payer and we screamed and yelled about that at the time.
They didn’t listen.
Repeal most all of it, but there are certain things I would like to see left in, like pre-existing conditions for starters.
If they want to really do it right, then allow companies to cross state borders as well and let the market determine the price through competition.
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