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House repeals health care reform act
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 245 to 189 Wednesday night to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – a measure President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate have already declared will be rejected.
The new Republican majority introduced the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act (H.R. 2) as part of their effort to follow through on campaign promises to overturn the health care reform law enacted last year.
An amendment to the bill – allowed by House Republicans – requires any committee considering replacement provisions to the reform law to include a permanent fix to the Medicare payment physician formula.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was originally passed by Congress last March.
The PPACA has been polarizing across numerous fields and specialties. The North American Spine Society (NASS) backed a repeal of the bill.
“NASS opposed PPACA, and as such, supports its repeal,” Raj Rao, MD, the NASS Advocacy Chair, stated in the NASS publication — Spine Advocacy. “NASS supports comprehensive health care reform that enables the delivery of high quality health care and supports this concept through the replacement of Medicare’s flawed reimbursement formula and the enactment of federal medical liability reforms.”
“NASS and its colleagues in the Alliance of Specialty Medicine will continue to work with Congress and the Obama Administration to repeal provisions within PPACA that diminish access to high quality specialty care through the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board and CMS Innovation Center,” Rao added.
The Obama Administration, meanwhile, has insisted it will stand by its primary domestic achievement.
“Repealing the Affordable Care Act would raise health insurance costs for families, add to our federal deficit, put control back in the hands of insurance companies, and take away the freedom and health security being realized by millions of Americans,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius stated in a White House release. “A recent analysis by our department shows that the Affordable Care Act will sharply reduce the cost of health insurance for millions of Americans.”
References:
- www.spine.org
- www.whitehouse.gov
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