Wednesday, July 11, 2012
3:41 PM
Wis. House members vote along party lines on health care repeal
Wisconsin's House delegation split 5-3 along party lines as the chamber voted to repeal the 2010 federal health care reform law.
The final vote in favor of repeal was 244-185; only five congressional Dems voted with Republicans to support repeal, while no Republicans voted against today's measure.
"We should be choosing approaches which give consumers incentives to use their health care dollars wisely," said U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, R-Fond du Lac, in a statement. "Instead, we are going in the opposite direction by turning decisions over to the government."
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, called the vote a waste of time.
“Enough is enough,” Kind said in a statement. “The Supreme Court found the Affordable Care Act constitutional."
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