Source: US Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), 2/6/15

This week, I introduced the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act with my congressional colleagues Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.). The Patient CARE Act is the first bicameral legislative plan that repeals Obamacare and replaces it with common-sense, patient-focused reforms that reduce health care costs and increase access to affordable, high-quality care.

North Carolinians have found out the hard way what is in Obamacare -- broken promises in the form of increased health care costs, costly mandates, and government bureaucracy. And no, just because you like your healthcare, you don’t necessarily get to keep it. Even if the President said so.  For a year, you have been sending your Obamacare stories about high premiums, lost coverage, and your personal information being exposed by broken websites. I’ve listened and proposed a blueprint that will in fact, make your healthcare more affordable.

Our nation’s health care system was broken before Obamacare, and the President’s health care debacle has only made things worse.  The Patient CARE Act repeals Obamacare and addresses the fundamental cost drivers that Obamacare failed to address.  We can lower costs and expand access to quality coverage and care by empowering individuals and their families to make their own health care decisions, rather than having the federal government make those decisions for them.

I also joined David Crabtree from Raleigh’s WRAL and Bret Baier on Fox’s Special Report.