I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6079 
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care- 
related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act 
of 2010. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 9, 2012 
Mr. CANTOR (for himself, Mr. CAMP, Mr. KLINE, Mr. UPTON, Mr. SMITH of 
Texas, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. HERGER, 
Mr. PITTS, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Mr. 
ROSKAM, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mrs. 
MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. CARTER, and Mr. DREIER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education 
and the Workforce, Natural Resources, the Judiciary, House Administra-
tion, Rules, Appropriations, and the Budget, for a period to be subse-
quently 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Repeal of Obamacare 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following with respect to the im-
pact of Public Law 111–148 and related provisions of 
Public Law 111–152 (collectively referred to in this sec-
tion as ‘‘the law’’): 
(1) President Obama promised the American 
people that if they liked their current health cov-
erage, they could keep it. But even the Obama Ad-
ministration admits that tens of millions of Ameri-
cans are at risk of losing their health care coverage, 
including as many as 8 in 10 plans offered by small 
businesses. 
(2) Despite projected spending of more than 
two trillion dollars over the next 10 years, cutting 
Medicare by more than one-half trillion dollars over 
that period, and increasing taxes by over $800 bil-
lion dollars over that period, the law does not lower 
health care costs. In fact, the law actually makes 
coverage more expensive for millions of Americans. 
The average American family already paid a pre-
mium increase of approximately $1,200 in the year 
following passage of the law. The Congressional 
Budget Office (CBO) predicts that health insurance 
premiums for individuals buying private health cov-
erage on their own will increase by $2,100 in 2016 
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compared to what the premiums would have been in 
2016 if the law had not passed. 
(3) The law cuts more than one-half trillion dol-
lars in Medicare and uses the funds to create a new 
entitlement program rather than to protect and 
strengthen the Medicare program. Actuaries at the 
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 
warn that the Medicare cuts contained in the law 
are so drastic that ‘‘providers might end their par-
ticipation in the program (possibly jeopardizing ac-
cess to care for beneficiaries)’’. CBO cautioned that 
the Medicare cuts ‘‘might be difficult to sustain over 
a long period of time’’. According to the CMS actu-
aries, 7.4 million Medicare beneficiaries who would 
have been enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in 
2017 will lose access to their plan because the law 
cuts $206 billion in payments to Medicare Advan-
tage plans. The Trustees of the Medicare Trust 
Funds predict that the law will result in a substan-
tial decline in employer-sponsored retiree drug cov-
erage, and 90 percent of seniors will no longer have 
access to retiree drug coverage by 2016 as a result 
of the law. 
(4) The law creates a 15-member, unelected 
Independent Payment Advisory Board that is em-
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powered to make binding decisions regarding what 
treatments Medicare will cover and how much Medi-
care will pay for treatments solely to cut spending, 
restricting access to health care for seniors. 
(5) The law and the more than 13,000 pages of 
related regulations issued before July 11, 2012, are 
causing great uncertainty, slowing economic growth, 
and limiting hiring opportunities for the approxi-
mately 13 million Americans searching for work. Im-
posing higher costs on businesses will lead to lower 
wages, fewer workers, or both. 
(6) The law imposes 21 new or higher taxes on 
American families and businesses, including 12 taxes 
on families making less than $250,000 a year. 
(7) While President Obama promised that noth-
ing in the law would fund elective abortion, the law 
expands the role of the Federal Government in fund-
ing and facilitating abortion and plans that cover 
abortion. The law appropriates billions of dollars in 
new funding without explicitly prohibiting the use of 
these funds for abortion, and it provides Federal 
subsidies for health plans covering elective abortions. 
Moreover, the law effectively forces millions of indi-
viduals to personally pay a separate abortion pre-
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mium in violation of their sincerely held religious, 
ethical, or moral beliefs. 
(8) Until enactment of the law, the Federal 
Government has not sought to impose specific cov-
erage or care requirements that infringe on the 
rights of conscience of insurers, purchasers of insur-
ance, plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and other stake-
holders, such as individual or institutional health 
care providers. The law creates a new nationwide re-
quirement for health plans to cover ‘‘essential health 
benefits’’ and ‘‘preventive services’’, but does not 
allow stakeholders to opt out of covering items or 
services to which they have a religious or moral ob-
jection, in violation of the Religious Freedom Res-
toration Act (Public Law 103–141). By creating new 
barriers to health insurance and causing the loss of 
existing insurance arrangements, these inflexible 
mandates jeopardize the ability of institutions and 
individuals to exercise their rights of conscience and 
their ability to freely participate in the health insur-
ance and health care marketplace. 
(9) The law expands Government control over 
health care, adds trillions of dollars to existing liabil-
ities, drives costs up even further, and too often puts 
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Federal bureaucrats, instead of doctors and patients, 
in charge of health care decisionmaking. 
(10) The path to patient-centered care and 
lower costs for all Americans must begin with a full 
repeal of the law. 
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF OBAMACARE. 
(a) PPACA.—Effective as of the enactment of Public 
Law 111–148, such Act (other than subsection (d) of sec-
tion 1899A of the Social Security Act, as added and 
amended by sections 3403 and 10320 of such Public Law) 
is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed 
by such Act (other than such subsection (d)) are restored 
or revived as if such Act had not been enacted. 
(b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE 
HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 
2010.—Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care 
and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 
111–152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act 
are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or re-
pealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored 
or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been en-
acted. 
SEC. 4. BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF THIS ACT. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
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shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
House of Representatives, as long as such statement has 
been submitted prior to the vote on passage of this Act. 
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