Members of the U.S. House Friday voted 240-189 to pass H.R.3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare FreedomReconciliation Act of 2015.

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Provisions in the measure would repeal some well-known sectionsof the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, includingthe individual coverage ownership mandate, the employercoverage and coverage reporting mandates, the excisetax on high-cost Cadillac plans and the medical devicetax.

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Download a copy of the bill here.

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The measure would also take funding away from PlannedParenthood.

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Only one of the 183 Democrats who voted, Rep. Collin Peterson(D-Minn.), voted for the measure.

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Republicans voted 239-7 in favor of the bill.

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Heritage for America, a group that opposes PPACA, argued earlierthis week that Republicans in the House should oppose H.R. 3762because the measure is not a full PPACA repeal measure. Passing andimplementing the measure as-is would leave many PPACA rules andprograms, including the PPACA exchange system, in place, the groupsaid.

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and two of his Senate Republicancolleagues who are running for president, Ted Cruz of Texas andMarco Rubio of Florida, issued a statement Thursday calling forRepublicans to withhold support for H.R. 3762.

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), chairman of the House RulesCommittee, said “Today's reconciliation package is the best chancewe have to repeal the most destructive parts of the law.”

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“I will continue to do all I can to gut this historically badlaw that has made something that should be simple, accessingquality care, far too difficult and too expensive,” Sessionscontinued.

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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the House Ways and Means chairman and acandidate to take over for John Boehner as House speaker, is alsosupporting H.R. 3762.

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“With this bill, we can finally confront the president with thereality confronting working families every day: higher costs andlower quality,” Ryan said. “We can put on the president's desk abill that will dismantle Obamacare and lay the foundation for apatient-centered system.”

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Because the House wrote H.R. 3762 under the rules governingbudget reconciliation legislation, not under the rules governingordinary bills, Republicans can get the measure through Congresswith just 51 votes in the Senate, without facing the need to comeup with 60 votes to avoid a filibuster.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.