Rep. Ryan: We’ve Used Reconciliation to Put an ObamaCare Repeal on Obama’s Desk

‘The people deserve a truly patient-centered health care system, and ultimately this is going to require a Republican president’

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"... to put on the president's desk a bill that repeals ObamaCare and defunds Planned Parenthood. This is the first time -- this is the first time in five years we will finally put a bill on the president's desk that defunds ObamaCare. For years, Senate Democrats have been blocking and filibustering these bills. This is too important to let up. So we have used the one tool that we can each year, reconciliation, to get a repeal bill on his desk. With this bill, we are standing for life. We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth. ObamaCare doesn't work. Higher premiums and fewer choices and restricted access, these are not signs of success. ObamaCare is not successful. They are signs of failure. And the American people deserve better.

. That's why our top priority in 2016 is going to be offering the country a clear choice with a bold pro-growth agenda. We know the president wants to fill this year with distractions. He wants to talk about anything but his failures. We're not going to let him take us off course. Too much is at stake. If we're ever going to get our country back on track, we need to make this year about ideas, not about Obama's distractions. And that is exactly what we're going to do."

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