South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds joined fellow freshmen members of the Senate in a news conference yesterday to address the future of health care on the five-year anniversary of Obamacare.
Rounds says the Affordable Care Act doesn’t do enough to slow down rising health care costs.
Rounds says they have a plan to rewrite the program.
Rounds says they can do that by attaching changes to pieces of the budget proposal.
A budget resolution for fiscal year 2016 is currently being considered on the Senate floor. The budget resolution will provide the procedural tools – via budget reconciliation– to repeal Obamacare. It is expected to pass later this week, which then allows the Senate to begin the appropriations process.
[Rounds was joined at the news conference by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.).]
