GOP panel touts uncompleted bill to help replace Obamacare

Published February 2, 2017 6:18pm ET



Republicans aimed to erase doubts about whether they plan to replace Obamacare, pointing to a series of bills they say will start rebuilding the healthcare marketplace.

“We know on our side we are gonna repeal Obamacare,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said during a subcommittee hearing Thursday on the four bills, three of which were introduced in prior Congresses and one recently drafted. “We have to save this individual healthcare market. It is collapsing.”

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