Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Health Care Marketplace Overhaul.
Passage of the bill that would make extensive changes to the 2010 health care overhaul law, by effectively repealing the individual and employer mandates as well as most of the taxes that finance the current system. It would, in 2020, convert Medicaid into a capped entitlement that would provide fixed federal payments to states and end additional federal funding for the 2010 law's joint federal-state Medicaid expansion. It would prohibit federal funding to any entity, such as Planned Parenthood, that performs abortions and receives more than $350 million a year in Medicaid funds. As amended, it would give states the option of receiving federal Medicaid funding as a block grant with greater state flexibility in how the funds are used, and would require states to establish their own essential health benefits standards. It would allow states to receive waivers to exempt insurers from having to provide certain minimum benefits, would provide $8 billion over five years for individuals with pre-existing conditions whose insurance premiums increased because the state was granted a waiver to raise premiums based on an individual's health status, and would create a $15 billion federal risk sharing program to cover some of the costs of high medical claims.
National Taxpayers Union
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Family Research Council
Obamacare Repeal and Replace.
Sponsored by Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), the American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628) would repeal the major pillars of Obamacare, with its taxpayer funding of elective abortion, and replace it with legislation that respects the fundamental federal policy that abortion is not health care and provides better health insurance solutions for families than Obamacare. This bill would also eliminate mandatory federal funding for certain large abortion providers like Planned Parenthood for one year.
NAACP
"REPEAL AND REPLACE" THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
Final passage of a bill to "repeal and replace" much of the 2010 Health Care reform law, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "ACA" or "Obamacare") and replacing it with a system that did not require or assist in the cost of coverage. The bill would also have capped and dramatically changed the federal Medicaid payment to states. The bill also prohibited payment to Planned Parenthood facilities. H.R. 1628 passed the House; no further action has been taken on the legislation, although a repeal of the Individual Mandate which was part of the ACA was enacted as part of H.R. 1.
American Conservative Union
HR 1628 Obamacare Repeal.
This bill repeals major parts of Obamacare over a period of time, including capping Medicaid expansion, to primarily able-bodied childless adults and ending the expansion in 2020 while defunding Planned Parenthood for one year. The bill still keeps some insurance mandates while allowing more requests for waivers from mandates that force less risky customers to pay higher premiums to subsidize more risky customers. This group supports the complete repeal of a program that has caused millions of people to lose their insurance plans and their doctors while dramatically increasing insurance premiums and deductibles and supported this bill as a step in the right direction. The House passed the bill. This vote was double-weighted due to its role in attempting to dismantle Obamacare.
AFL-CIO
American Health Care Act.
This bill would roll back Affordable Care Act coverage expansions and sharply reduce funding for the Medicaid program, taking health coverage away from 23 million people. The bill passed the House amended.
NARAL Pro-Choice America
ACA Repeal and Attack on Planned Parenthood.
American Health Care Act, H.R.1628. Final passage. A bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, restrict private insurance coverage of abortion care, and disqualify Planned Parenthood from participating in federal healthcare programs for one year. (Some anti-choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unrelated to reproductive health.) Passed.
National Education Association
REPEALING ACA.
This group opposed passage of the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628) which was designed to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the bill would provide billions in tax cuts for the wealthy while taking away health insurance coverage for 24 million people. The legislation passed.
National Right to Life Committee
American Health Care Act (Obamacare replacement / defund Planned Parenthood).
The American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628), sponsored by Rep. Diane Black (R-Tn.) and backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wi.), was supported by this group in the form that it passed the House of Representatives, on the roll call shown here. H.R. 1628 is a special "budget reconciliation" bill that would repeal and replace major portions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). The Obamacare law provided tax subsidies for over 1,000 health plans that cover elective abortion; H.R. 1628 would prohibit such subsidies, thereby restoring the longstanding principles of the Hyde Amendment with respect to federally funded health coverage. Another key provision of H.R. 1628 would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which perform over one-third of all abortions in the U.S. Other provisions of H.R. 1628 preserve non-taxed employer-provided health plans and postpone the "Cadillac tax" on comprehensive health plans until 2026; these are important protections for access to life-saving health care. H.R. 1628 passed the House, after which the bill was sent to the U.S. Senate for further consideration.
National Federation of Independent Business
H.R. 1628 On Passage: H R 1628 American Health Care Act.
This group supported this bill.
National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628).
This group opposed this bill, which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act, restructured and deeply cut Medicaid by over $830 billion, cut premium subsidies, and greatly widened the gap in access to healthcare in this nation. Passed.
Citizens Against Government Waste
Health Care Marketplace Overhaul – Passage.
Passage of the bill that would make extensive changes to the 2010 health care overhaul law, by effectively repealing the individual and employer mandates as well as most of the taxes that finance the current system. It would, in 2020, convert Medicaid into a capped entitlement that would provide fixed federal payments to states and end additional federal funding for the 2010 law's joint federal-state Medicaid expansion. It would prohibit federal funding to any entity, such as Planned Parenthood, that performs abortions and receives more than $350 million a year in Medicaid funds. As amended, it would give states the option of receiving federal Medicaid funding as a block grant with greater state flexibility in how the funds are used, and would require states to establish their own essential health benefits standards. It would allow states to receive waivers to exempt insurers from having to provide certain minimum benefits, would provide $8 billion over five years for individuals with pre-existing conditions whose insurance premiums increased because the state was granted a waiver to raise premiums based on an individual's health status, and would create a $15 billion federal risk sharing program to cover some of the costs of high medical claims.
The John Birch Society
Obamacare Replacement.
Rather than voting to repeal ObamaCare, the House voted instead to retain much of ObamaCare under the guise of “repeal and replace." The legislation (H.R. 1628), known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), was strongly backed by President Trump and the Republican congressional leadership. Consequently most Republicans voted for the bill, but 20 voted against it. Liberty-minded Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) noted that the AHCA entailed “replacing mandates, subsidies and penalties with mandates, subsidies and penalties.” Another Republican lawmaker, Representative Andy Biggs (Ariz.), while “applaud[ing] all the hard work of the House Freedom Caucus, which has made every effort ... to improve this legislation,” nonetheless concluded that the “final bill ... does not meet the promises I made to my constituents.” Biggs added, “I remain committed to a full repeal of ObamaCare.”
The House passed H.R. 1628. This group did not support this legislation because ObamaCare should be repealed, not replaced with a Republican variant of unconstitutional government healthcare that more liberty-minded lawmakers have referred to as “ObamaCare Lite” and “ObamaCare 2.0.” Admittedly, the Democrats who voted against this GOP alternatives have gotten “pluses” on this for the wrong reasons (they do not want to move away from the ObamaCare brand and in many cases want even more socialized medicine), but the Republicans who voted against the bill based on principle as opposed to partisanship are to be applauded.
The National Breast Cancer Coalition
AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT (AHCA) OF 2017 (HR 1628).
This group voted in opposition of H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA)- which would repeal major safeguards provided by the ACA.
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
American Health Care Act of 2017.
Repeals the Affordable Care Act, which would weaken Medicare’s solvency leaving it vulnerable to benefit cuts and privatization, threaten access to Medicaid’s long-term care benefits, and require seniors to pay more for less health care coverage.
Alliance for Retired Americans
Health Care Repeal.
Representative Black, R-TN, introduced legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill repeals the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion leading more than 20,000 Americans to lose their insurance. It would also reduce the solvency of the Medicare trust fund by 3 years, cut Medicaid by $834 billion by capping payments to states and raise premiums for 50 to 64 years old from $1,700 to $16,100. The bill passed. H.R. 1628.
The National Association of Manufacturers
HR1628 American Health Care Act of 2017.
American Health Care Act of 2017. This bill takes an important step towards repealing the taxes resulting from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Manufacturers strongly support repeal of the medical device tax, the 3.8 percent net investment tax, the health insurance tax and the pharmaceutical tax, and a delay of the Cadillac tax until 2026. These critical changes will help manufacturers continue to provide quality health care to their employees.