Starting Over With Obamacare (a.k.a. getting rid of it). We’re putting forward a plan that actually lets you keep your health care if you like it, with freedom to change it if you don’t.
Get rid of Obamacare and replace it with a plan that lets people keep their health care if they like it and change it if they do not.
Occurrences
I will remain vigilant and we will win the fight to eliminate Obamacare and put the free market back into our healthcare system.
Evidence
Carter said he was committed to working on the subcommittee to improve health care and that the subcommittee would be tasked with repeal and replacement of Obamacare in 2017.
The House passed the American Health Care Act of 2017 on May 4, 2017; the govinfo record shows the engrossed bill and House passage.
Recorded vote 256 shows the American Health Care Act passed the House 217-213 on May 4, 2017.
Carter said he was calling for a vote on a blanket repeal of Obamacare and argued the House had already passed repeal-and-replace legislation.
After the Senate failed to pass repeal-and-replace legislation, Carter said he was disappointed and that inaction was not an option.
Carter described the AHCA as only the first of many steps and said additional legislation and administrative relief would still be needed to complete the repeal-and-replace plan.
Assessments
Carter and House Republicans materially advanced repeal-and-replace legislation during the relevant federal term, including House passage of the American Health Care Act in May 2017. But the bill did not become law, the Senate repeal effort failed in July 2017, and the Affordable Care Act was not gotten rid of or replaced with the promised alternative. Carter's own statements treated the House bill as incomplete and continued pressing for repeal after the Senate failure, showing serious effort but no delivered outcome.