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WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives approved a nonbinding resolution Thursday directing four House committees to draft legislation to replace last year's health care reform law.
The House approved the resolution on a 253-175 vote, including 14 Democrats.
The resolution instructs the Education and Labor, the Energy and Commerce, the Ways and Means, and the Judiciary committees to develop legislation that would replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The resolution, originally proposed by Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., and titled “Instructing Certain Committees to Report Legislation Replacing the Job-killing Health Care law,” directs the committees to develop legislation that would, among other things, lower health care premiums through increased competition and choice, increase the number of insured, and not “accelerate the insolvency of entitlement programs or increase the tax burden on Americans.”
The Thursday passage of the resolution followed Wednesday's vote by the House to approve H.R. 2 to repeal the health care reform law.
Observers say the House repeal measure has no chance of winning Senate approval. Even if it did, President Barack Obama already has vowed to veto it.
WASHINGTON—After a spirited debate, the House of Representatives Wednesday approved, on a near party-line 245-189 vote, legislation to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Just three Democrats voted in favor of the measure.