Obamacare must be repealed.
Support repealing Obamacare.
Occurrences
Evidence
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“I’m very pleased that we were able to pass the first step in a multi-step process to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
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“Estes helped the House pass the American Health Care Act to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
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“Republicans are addressing the health care crisis in America that Democrats themselves created through Obamacare,” Congressman Estes said. “The law Democrats passed that they insisted would make health care affordable couldn’t be more untrue. The Unaffordable Care Act led to doubled premiums and deductibles...”
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It “eliminates fraud and waste in Obamacare...”
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Campaign issues page says under Health Care: "Obamacare must be repealed." It also says Estes supports replacing Obamacare with a state-based free-market solution.
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After House passage of the AHCA, Estes said it was the "first step" toward a process "to repeal and replace Obamacare."
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Roll Call 256 was on passage of H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act. The vote passed 217-213; Estes (KS), Republican, voted Aye.
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 1628 as the American Health Care Act of 2017 with status Passed House; the House passed it 217-213 on May 4, 2017.
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Congress.gov's summary says H.R. 1628 would repeal individual mandate penalties, employer mandate penalties, several PPACA taxes, and modify ACA premium credits.
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Estes' official one-year recap states: "Rep. Estes helped the House pass the American Health Care Act to repeal and replace Obamacare."
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Roll Call 699 was on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Estes (KS) voted Yea; the measure passed 224-201.
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Congress.gov says H.R. 1 became Public Law 115-97 and that Section 11081 repealed the penalty for failing to maintain ACA minimum essential coverage.
Assessments
The promise was framed as supporting repeal of Obamacare, not personally securing full repeal. Estes fulfilled that support commitment in his first federal term by voting for the American Health Care Act, the major 2017 House repeal-and-replace bill, and publicly describing it as a step toward repealing and replacing Obamacare. He also voted for the 2017 tax law that became law and repealed the ACA individual mandate penalty. Full ACA repeal did not become law, but the promised action was support for repeal, which he clearly provided in office.
The promise was to support repealing Obamacare, not necessarily to fully achieve repeal. The evidence shows Estes explicitly backed repeal and helped pass the House American Health Care Act in 2017, which was described as a repeal-and-replace step. That is direct, concrete support in office and satisfies a promise framed as support rather than final policy enactment. Full ACA repeal did not become law, but because the claim is about support, his recorded votes and public advocacy are sufficient to count as delivered.