GOP Lawmaker Introduces Obamacare Replacement Bill Titled “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan Of 2017”

The Daily Beast reports:

A House Republican has reintroduced his own Obamacare repeal measure with the not-so-subtle title of the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017.” Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, introduced the legislation last week, just days before GOP leadership unveiled their proposal to begin the process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Sessions was reportedly hoping that his legislation would be the basis of House Republicans’ eventual repeal efforts. Instead, Speaker Paul Ryan and his team modeled their initial bill on legislation authored by former Rep. Tom Price, the Georgia Republican who now leads President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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In case there was any confusion over whether Sessions, who introduced the bill, actually wanted such a braggadocious formal name, the bill’s text clarifies that yes, “this Act may be cited as the ‘World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017.'” Sessions noted he’s been working on this plan with health care providers and business owners for the last 18 months, and promised on his website that it isn’t “full of onerous regulations, unnecessary mandates, or discriminatory policies,” and that it “empowers all Americans to make their own health care choices.”

See the full bill here.