Mike Johnson on Health Care

Replace ObamaCare with patient-centered, market-based plan

• As so many of us predicted, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") has proven to be a disaster. It has offered neither protection nor affordability, and indeed has resulted in exactly the opposite. ObamaCare has driven up premiums and made the cost of doing business increase drastically. A recent Gallup poll estimated that at least one-fifth of small businesses in the U.S. have already had to cut millions of jobs because of the law. I will help lead the fight in Congress to repeal ObamaCare in its entirety.
• We will replace ObamaCare with a sensible new plan that is more patient-centered and market-based. Our plan will prevent government bureaucrats from interfering in the doctor-patient relationship and put healthcare decisions back in the hands of individuals and families. Free market principles can save our healthcare system, but we must allow them to flourish again.

Supports repealing the 2010 affordable care act.

The Project Vote Smart Voter Guide inferred how candidates would respond to the question, 'Health Care: Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?' Project Vote Smart notes, "in response to the increasing unwillingness of candidates to answer issue questions, Project Vote Smart has researched Congressional candidates' public records to determine candidates' likely responses on certain key issues. These issue positions, from the year 2016, are provided [for candidates who] refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests. Historically, candidates have failed to complete our test due to the advice they receive from their parties and advisors and out of fear of negative attack ads."