#FullRepeal: Take Control of Our Healthcare
ObamaCare Must Be Repealed to Take Control of Healthcare from Government and Give Healthcare Choices to Families
- ObamaCare remains a massive failure that stuck the American people with a big government mandate, Medicare cuts, increased healthcare costs and more burdens on small businesses.
- ObamaCare must be repealed in order to wipe the slate clean and give the American people an opportunity to start over and improve our healthcare system the right way.
- The most effective way to get rid of ObamaCare is to get rid of the Democrats who have defended ObamaCare at every turn.
ObamaCare remains a massive failure that stuck the American people with a big government mandate, Medicare cuts, increased healthcare costs and more burdens on small businesses:
DEMOCRATS’ POLITICALLY TOXIC INDIVIDUAL MANDATE: IN NYT POLL 67% SUPPORTED OVERTURNING AT LEAST THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE IF NOT ALL OF OBAMACARE: (“Results of The New York Times/CBS News Poll,” The New York Times, 3/21-25/2012)
BROKEN PROMISE: OBAMACARE WOULD LOWER COSTS AND FAMILIES COULD SAVE $2,500/YEAR ON PREMIUMS: OBAMA: “Coupled with comprehensive reform, this could result in our nation saving over $2 trillion over the next 10 years, and that could save families $2,500 in the coming years — $2,500 per family.” (“Statement by the President After Meeting With House Democratic Leadership,” The White House, 5/13/2009)
BROKEN: FAMILY HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS ROSE 9% IN 2011, WITH OBAMACARE PLAYING A ROLE: (Julie Appleby, “Cost of Employer Insurance Plans Surge in 2011,” Kaiser Health News, 9/27/2011)
EMPLOYEES’ SHARE OF PREMIUM COSTS HAS ALREADY INCREASED 9.3% FROM 2011 TO 2012, $235 PER PERSON: “Employees’ share of premium costs increased 9.3% between 2011 and 2012, with the dollar burden rising from $2,529 to $2,764.” (“Performance in an Era of Uncertainty,” Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Healthcare, March 2012)
BY A MARGIN OF 8 TO 1, EMPLOYERS EXPECT OBAMACARE TO INCREASE COSTS: “By a margin of 8 to 1, those who believe Health Care Reform will trigger a cost increase outnumber those who believe Health Care Reform will create savings. Yet the survey responses reflect that few employers have started to reframe employee expectations relative to Health Care Reform.” (“The Health Care Reform Survey: 2011-2012,” Willis, March 2012)
BROKEN PROMISE: OBAMACARE WOULD REDUCE THE DEFICIT: PELOSI: “‘The bill is fiscally sound, will not add one dime to the deficit,’ Pelosi proclaimed.” (Chris Good, “Pelosi: Health Care Bill Reduces Deficit, Spends More Than Senate Bill,” The Atlantic, 10/29/2009)
MORE PELOSI: OBAMACARE WILL “CREATE 4 MILLION JOBS IN THE LIFE OF THE BILL AND DOING ALL OF THAT BY SAVING THE TAXPAYER $1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS.” (Speeches, Office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, 3/22/2010)
MEDICARE TRUSTEE: OBAMACARE TO ADD AT LEAST $340 BILLION TO THE DEFICIT: (Lori Montgomery, “Health-care Law Will Add $340 Billion to Deficit, New Study Finds,” The Washington Post, 4/9/2012)
OBAMACARE TO COST $1.76 TRILLION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS: (Phillip Klein, “CBO: ObamaCare to Cost $1.76 Trillion Over 10 Years,” The Washington Examiner, 3/13/2012)
OBAMACARE’S MANY TAXES AND MEDICARE CUTS:
DEMS CUT $500 BILLION FROM MEDICARE TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE: “It would cut an additional $60 billion from Medicare, bringing total cuts to the program to more than $500 billion over the next 10 years.” (Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery, “With Senate ‘Fixes’ Bill, GOP Sees Last Chance to Change Health-Care Reform,” The Washington Post, 3/24/2012)
OBAMACARE INCREASES TAXES BY $525 BILLION:(“CBO’s Analysis of the Major Health Care Legislation Enacted in March 2010,” Congressional Budget Office, 3/30/2011)
CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATORS, ARTIFICIAL JOINTS, AND MRI SCANNERS ALL FACE NEW TAXES: “The 2.3% levy applies to the sale of everything from cardiac defibrillators to artificial joints to MRI scanners. The device tax is supposed to raise $28.5 billion from 2013 to 2022, and it is especially harmful because it applies to gross sales, not profits.” (Editorial, “Improvised Explosive Device Tax,” The Wall Street Journal, 5/28/2012)
SMALL AND MID-SIZED BUSINESSES COULD BE HIT HARDEST: “Companies at make-or-break margins could be taxed out of existence, especially in an intensely competitive industry where four of five businesses are start-ups or midsized.” (Editorial, “Improvised Explosive Device Tax,” The Wall Street Journal, 5/28/2012)
ObamaCare must be repealed in order to wipe the slate clean and give the American people an opportunity to start over and improve our healthcare system the right way:
PELOSI: DEMOCRATS HAD “TO PASS THE BILL SO THAT YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT IS IN IT”: (David Freddoso, “Pelosi on Health Care: ‘We Have to Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What Is In It,” The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog, 3/9/2010)
DEMOCRATS’ BROKEN PROCESS:
“DEMOCRATS PROTECT[ED] BACKROOM DEALS” TO PASS OBAMACARE:“The health care bill is in trouble, but a series of narrow deals — each designed to win over a wavering senator or key interest group — is alive and well, despite voter anger over the parochial horse-trading that marked the rush toward passage before Christmas.” (Carrie Budoff Brown and Patrick O’Connor, “Democrats Protect Backroom Deals,” Politico, 2/3/2010)
POLITIFACT GIVES OBAMA A “PROMISE BROKEN” FOR VOW TO NEGOTIATE HEALTH CARE REFORM IN PUBLIC SESSIONS TELEVISED ON C-SPAN: (“Negotiate Health Care Reform in Public Sessions Televised on C-SPAN,”PolitiFact.com, 7/10/2009)
REP. JOHN CONYERS (D-MI) ON WHY HE DIDN’T READ OBAMACARE:“What good is reading the bill if it’s a 1000 pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to figure out what it means after you read the bill?”(Remarks from Rep. John Conyers, YouTube, 7/27/2009)
OBAMACARE ARCHITECT SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-MT) DIDN’T EITHER:(Taeggan Goddard, “Baucus Didn’t Read Health Care Bill,” Political Wire, 8/25/2010)
AT LAST COUNT, OBAMACARE REGULATIONS AT 5,931 PAGES: (David Hogberg, “ObamaCare’s 5,931 Pages of Regulations,” Investor’s Business Daily, 3/23/2012)
The most effective way to get rid of ObamaCare is to get rid of the Democrats who have defended ObamaCare at every turn:
OBAMA HHS SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS ALREADY SAID DEMOCRATS WILL “KEEP GOING” WITH OBAMACARE NO MATTER WHAT SUPREME COURT RULED: (Sam Baker, “Sebelius: ‘We Keep Going’ if Court Strikes Down Mandate to Have Insurance,” The Hill, 1/24/2012)
DEMOCRAT LEADER NANCY PELOSI: OBAMACARE IS DEMOCRATS’ “GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT” AND “CROWN JEWEL”: (Jake Sherman, “Pelosi: Health Care is Obama’s ‘Crown Jewel,’” Politico, 4/3/2012)
87% OF HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTED TO PASS OBAMACARE WITH ZEROGOP VOTES: (Roll Call 167, Clerk of the U.S. House, 3/21/2010)
HOUSE DEMOCRATS DRAFTING A PLAN FOR EXPANDING GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE: “Universal coverage, Medicare for all, single payer — call it what you will. It’s clear that conservative forces are determined to prevent such a system from ever being introduced at the national level. So it’s up to the states. … But legislation quietly being drafted by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) would change that. It would create a mechanism for states to request federal funds after establishing their own health insurance programs.” (David Lazarus, “Legislation May Enable States to Offer Universal Healthcare,” Los Angeles Times, 5/25/2012)
DEMOCRATS CLAIM THEIR PLAN WILL BUILD ON OBAMACARE: “Kinsey Kiriakos, a spokesman for McDermott, said by email that the bill is intended to advance the goals of President Obama’s healthcare reform law, which would extend coverage to about 30 million of the 50 million people nationwide without insurance.” (David Lazarus, “Legislation May Enable States to Offer Universal Healthcare,” Los Angeles Times, 5/25/2012)
DEMS HAVE REPEATEDLY PROVED THEY WON’T REPEAL OR EVEN FIX OBAMACARE:
98% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING OBAMACARE: (Roll Call 14, Clerk of the U.S. House, 1/19/2011)
95% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING OBAMACARE SLUSH FUNDS: (Roll Call 264, Clerk of the U.S. House, 4/13/2011)
95% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING FUNDS FOR OBAMACARE STATE EXCHANGES: (Roll Call 285, Clerk of the U.S. House, 5/3/2011)
97% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING FUNDS FOR OBAMACARE HEALTH CENTERS: (Roll Call 290, Clerk of the U.S. House, 5/4/2011)
83% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTE AGAINST REPEALING FISCALLY DISASTROUS “CLASS” PROGRAM: (Roll Call 18, Clerk of the U.S. House, 2/1/2012)
90% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING IPAB: (Roll Call 126, Clerk of the U.S. House, 3/22/2012)
87% OF HOUSE DEMS VOTED AGAINST REPEALING OBAMACARE SLUSH FUNDS TO PREVENT STUDENT INTEREST RATE HIKES: (Roll Call 195, Clerk of the U.S. House, 4/27/2012)