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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 596 

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health carerelated provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act 

of 2010, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 28, 2015 

Mr. BYRNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration, Appropriations, and the Budget, 

for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 

for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 

committee concerned 

A BILL 

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, 

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1 SECTION 1. REPEAL OF PPACA AND HEALTH CARE-RE2 LATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE 

3 AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 

4 2010. 

5 (a) PPACA.—Effective as of the enactment of the 

6 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 

7 111–148), such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law 

8 amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived 

9 as if such Act had not been enacted. 

10 (b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE

11 HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF

12 2010.—Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care 

13 and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 

14 111–152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act 

15 are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or re16 pealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored 

17 or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been en18 acted. 

19 SEC. 2. BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF THIS ACT. 

20 The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 

21 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

22 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

23 titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 

24 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

25 by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 

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1 House of Representatives, as long as such statement has 

2 been submitted prior to the vote on passage of this Act. 

3 SEC. 3. REPORTING REPLACEMENT LEGISLATION. 

4 The Committee on Education and the Workforce, the 

5 Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on 

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

7 the House of Representatives shall each report to the 

8 House of Representatives legislation proposing changes to 

9 existing law within each committee’s jurisdiction with pro10 visions that— 

11 (1) foster economic growth and private sector 

12 job creation by eliminating job-killing policies and 

13 regulations; 

14 (2) lower health care premiums through in15 creased competition and choice; 

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

17 her health plan if he or she likes it; 

18 (4) provide people with pre-existing conditions 

19 access to affordable health coverage; 

20 (5) reform the medical liability system to re21 duce unnecessary and wasteful health care spending; 

22 (6) increase the number of insured Americans; 

23 (7) protect the doctor-patient relationship; 

24 (8) provide the States greater flexibility to ad25 minister Medicaid programs; 

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1 (9) expand incentives to encourage personal re2 sponsibility for health care coverage and costs; 

3 (10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and 

4 provide conscience protections for health care pro5 viders; 

6 (11) eliminate duplicative government programs 

7 and wasteful spending; or 

8 (12) do not accelerate the insolvency of entitle9 ment programs or increase the tax burden on Ameri10 cans. 

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