The letter states Mr. McConnell and his colleagues look forward to hearing from Mr. Haslam and other Republican governors concerning ideas for replacing the PPACA with “commonsense, step-by-step reforms that will lower costs and increase access to care.”
Mr. McConnell’s outreach effort follows the release of a PPACA alternative earlier this week by Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment, or CARE, Act would do away with many core PPACA provisions such as the individual mandate requiring people to get health insurance or pay a fine. It would also only protect people with pre-existing conditions from being denied insurance if they maintained “continuous coverage from one plan to another.”
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama asked Republicans to stop attacking the PPACA unless they could present a viable alternative, stating that “if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently.”
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