Press Release

Today, Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA), released the following statement after the House majority cancelled a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act:

This bill would have kicked millions of hardworking Americans off of their health care, raised the cost of coverage for families, and imposed an age tax on our parents and grandparents. I hope that after cancelling this vote, the Speaker and the majority will hear loud and clear that playing politics with peoples' health care is not going to work. Now is the time for Democrats and Republicans to come together, because the job isn't over until every American has affordable and accessible healthcare. Real lives are at stake here and I'm ready to get to work.

It's estimated that more than 100,000 hardworking Americans in Sacramento County would have lost their health care under the proposed legislation.

Dr. Bera is one of just two Democratic doctors in Congress, and practiced internal medicine, taught at the UC Davis school of medicine, and served Sacramento County as Chief Medical Officer before being elected to Congress.

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