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Calendar No. 14 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 596 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 4, 2015 

Received; read the first time 

FEBRUARY 5, 2015 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

AN ACT 

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 

and health care-related provisions in the Health Care 

and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. REPEAL OF PPACA AND HEALTH CARE-RE4 LATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE 

5 AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 

6 2010. 

7 (a) PPACA.—Effective on the date that is 180 days 

8 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Patient 


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1 Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111– 

2 148) is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or 

3 repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such 

4 Act had not been enacted. 

5 (b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE

6 HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF

7 2010.—Effective on the date that is 180 days after the 

8 date of the enactment of this Act, title I and subtitle B 

9 of title II of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation 

10 Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–152) are repealed, and the 

11 provisions of law amended or repealed by such title or sub12 title, respectively, are restored or revived as if such title 

13 and subtitle had not been enacted. 

14 SEC. 2. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

15 The budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered 

16 on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to sec17 tion 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 

18 SEC. 3. REPORTING REPLACEMENT LEGISLATION. 

19 The Committee on Education and the Workforce, the 

20 Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on 

21 the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 

22 the House of Representatives shall each report to the 

23 House of Representatives legislation proposing changes to 

24 existing law within each committee’s jurisdiction with pro25 visions that— 


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1 (1) foster economic growth and private sector 

2 job creation by eliminating job-killing policies and 

3 regulations; 

4 (2) lower health care premiums through in5 creased competition and choice; 

6 (3) preserve a patient’s ability to keep his or 

7 her health plan if he or she likes it; 

8 (4) provide people with pre-existing conditions 

9 access to affordable health coverage; 

10 (5) reform the medical liability system to re11 duce unnecessary and wasteful health care spending; 

12 (6) increase the number of insured Americans; 

13 (7) protect the doctor-patient relationship; 

14 (8) provide the States greater flexibility to ad15 minister Medicaid programs while reducing costs 

16 under such programs; 

17 (9) expand incentives to encourage personal re18 sponsibility for health care coverage and costs; 

19 (10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and 

20 provide conscience protections for health care pro21 viders; 

22 (11) eliminate duplicative government programs 

23 and wasteful spending; or 


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1 (12) do not accelerate the growth of entitlement 

2 programs or increase the tax burden on Americans. 

Passed the House of Representatives February 3, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 14 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 596 

AN ACT 

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable 

Act of 2010, and for other purposes. the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Care Act and health care-related provisions in 

FEBRUARY 5, 2015 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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