Health

WASHINGTON, DC -- US Representative Ted Budd released the following statement after the passage of the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2017: “I am pleased to have voted in favor of repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board. If someone thought bipartisanship in regards to health care was impossible, they were wrong. Today we saw both Republicans and Democrats come to together in support of the Constitution by restoring the power of policy-making back to Congress. Obamacare cr... Read more

Representative Ted Budd (R-NC) released the following statement on the American Health Care Act: “If history is any guide I’ll take around 2,000 votes this Congress. Most of them will be forgotten. This is not one of those votes. This vote marks the beginning of the end of Obamacare as we know it. The failure of that law can be seen in the double-digit premium increases and monopoly situation in the individual insurance market in our state. Ultimately, the legislative process is a human process... Read more

Today, U.S. Representative Ted Budd (R-NC) released the following statement regarding the current version of the American Health Care Act 2017. "As currently written, I cannot support the American Health Care Act. This bill leaves the structure of Obamacare in place and does not provide the relief that North Carolina families need from high premiums. I am completely committed to repealing Obamacare and do not think that Congress should take a recess until we have done so." Read more

, -- Representative Ted Budd joined Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-8) and seven other Congressional North Carolina Republicans to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deny Governor Roy Cooper’s Medicaid expansion proposal. “This type of over-reaching illegal executive action is the type of behavior that the American people have voiced against, said Rep. Ted Budd. Obamacare is a disaster, and expanding it goes against the wishes of the thousands of North Carolinians that sent us he... Read more