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U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (NC-05) today voted to move forward with replacing the 2010 health care law with a new set of reform.  Today’s vote came on the heels of her vote last night to repeal the health care law, fulfilling a signature promise in House Republicans’ “Pledge to American” from last fall. 

“North Carolinians want Congress to tackle health care reform in a way that lowers costs and makes health care more accessible,” Foxx said.  “Unfortunately, the health care overhaul passed last year has not halted the continual increases in health care costs and health insurance premiums—although it did create scores of new federal bureaucracies, miles of job-destroying red tape and a draconian mandate for all Americans to purchase health insurance.  I think we can do better than that.”

Last night the House passed H.R. 2, which repealed the health care law, by a margin of 245-189.  Today the House passed H Res 9, which instructs the relevant House committees to draft new health care reform legislation for consideration by the full House.   The new health care reform legislation will focus on economic growth and job creation, lowering health care premiums, empowering consumers, reducing wasteful government health care spending and covering those with pre-existing conditions. 

“Congress can get this right,” Foxx said.  “By focusing on driving down costs and giving Americans more freedom, we will be able to enact the sort of reforms that Americans want—without busting the budget, raising record amounts of taxes or eroding individual liberty.”