Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an "Obamacare Repeal Act" that would repeal the Affordable Care Act "as if such Act had not been enacted."
The text of Cruz's bill to repeal the 2,700-page law barely runs onto the third page.
"This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty." Cruz says in a statement on the bill. "It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable."
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
If Republicans could get around a Democratic filibuster, Cruz would be the only prospective presidential candidate who could claim to have authored the first Obamacare repeal that passed through Congress.
