Tom Price

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), a champion of the pro-life community.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler), a diligent and productive member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen), a fellow Georgian and a freshman Member of the House of Representatives.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Stutzman), a wonderful member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire once again the time remaining on each side?

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the distinguished majority leader of the House of Representatives.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Lance), a productive member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the Republican majority whip.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), who has been a champion for patient-centered health care and is the vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining on each side, please?

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Boustany), a fellow physician and member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), a fellow healthcare professional, who is a member of both the Budget Committee and the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe), a fellow physician who is the chair of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita), the vice chairman of the Budget Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Kline), the chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady), the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, who was a leader of one of the multiple committees involved in this.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is a big day. For the first time--for the first time--since the law was enacted, Congress is one vote away from sending a broad repeal of ObamaCare to the President's desk. This marks a significant step in the fight for patient-centered health care for all Americans. It will lay the foundation for how Congress can begin to roll back the disastrous policies that are destroying the sacred doctor-patient relationship. The legislation before us today is critical to our larger effort to rid America's healthcare system from undue Washington interference and bureaucratic dictates and pave the way for real, positive, patient- centered health reform that puts patients and families and doctors in charge of healthcare decisions. This bill repeals the most corrosive components of ObamaCare. It eliminates nearly a trillion dollars in onerous ObamaCare taxes and eliminates the individual and employer mandate penalties, key pillars of the ObamaCare scheme. Under ObamaCare, millions of Americans have been added to a Medicaid system that fails to provide its beneficiaries with adequate access to physicians and other providers. We end that. Expanding Medicaid is not the answer. Reforming Medicaid so that States have greater flexibility to care for those in need is the answer. This legislation also repeals the premium subsidies and tax credits which have failed to control and, in fact, have increased health coverage costs. The current law has made healthcare coverage less affordable and less accessible for millions of Americans. All of this would be done on a timeline to allow for a new, positive solution that will make the purchase of health insurance financially feasible for all Americans and do so in a way that gives individuals, families, and employers the power to choose the type of coverage that they want for themselves, not that Washington forces them to buy. H.R. 3762 also halts Federal funding for abortion providers that are prohibited under this legislation. It increases--increases, Mr. Speaker--the funding for community healthcare centers to help direct more resources to women's direct care. Taken together, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that this bill would reduce the deficit by $516 billion over the next decade. Seven separate committees and the full House and Senate have contributed to this effort. The entire reconciliation would not have been possible had the House and Senate not first agreed to a budget resolution conference agreement. The budget gave Congress the authority to pursue the reconciliation process and, through that, the opportunity to put this repeal of ObamaCare on the President's desk. Ultimately, however, the American people are less interested in process and procedure. They want results, and they want to know who is fighting to improve their way of life, who is working to provide relief to the biggest challenges facing individuals and families and job creators today. No matter how you slice it, ObamaCare is harming the American people. Premiums and deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs are going up, not down, as the President had promised. Millions of Americans have been kicked off the coverage that they had. That is less access and fewer choices at a higher cost. That is exactly the opposite direction we need to be going, and the American people know it. We all want a healthcare system that is affordable and accessible and responsive to our individual needs, full of choices and innovative treatment options and of the highest quality. That is not too much to ask, Mr. Speaker. It is certainly achievable, but only if we pursue patient-centered solutions that are focused on embracing those principles in health care that we all hold dear. I look forward to this debate and the opportunity to share with the American people how we solve this challenge, the challenge in America's healthcare system, by putting them in charge of their healthcare decisions, not Washington. I encourage my colleagues to support this resolution, this measure. Let's take this final step in reconciliation to send an ObamaCare repeal bill to the President's desk. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 579, I call up the bill (H.R. 3762) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 2002 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, with the Senate amendment thereto, and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the great State of Michigan (Mr. Moolenaar), a productive member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the order of the House of today, I move that the House do now adjourn.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today on a motion offered pursuant to this order, it adjourn to meet at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, unless it sooner has received a message from the Senate transmitting its concurrence in House Concurrent Resolution 104, in which case the House shall stand adjourned sine die pursuant to that concurrent resolution.

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia

Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 104) and ask for its immediate consideration.