House Republican leaders are asking the nation’s governors and state insurance commissioners on how best to replace Obamacare.
“Obamacare is crumbling under its own weight and seriously harming people in the process,” Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement releasing the Friday letter. “With a unified Republican Congress and administration, we have the opportunity to repeal this law and undertake major healthcare reforms.”
“Because governors and state insurance commissioners are on the ground and see Obamacare’s problems every day, I and several House chairmen have sent a letter requesting their thoughts on what we need to do to deliver high quality and affordable healthcare to the American people,” he said.
The letter said Congress next year would begin debating and implementing legislation to repeal Obamacare and replace it somehow. But they said in the letter, “we need your ideas too.”
To get those ideas, the letter asked what changes they would like to see, how to reduce healthcare costs, and what steps each state may have taken to improve healthcare.
Read the GOP letter here:
