#IWANTREPEAL: Dems Support ObamaCare’s Rising Costs, Medicare Cuts, Taxes, and Healthcare Decisions in Hands of Government

July 11, 2012

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Ron Barber (AZ-08), John Barrow (GA-12), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), John Delaney (MD-06), Bill Foster (IL-11), Pete Gallego (TX-23), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Hayden Rogers (NC-11), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)

Sutton Supports ObamaCare’s Rising Costs, Medicare Cuts, Taxes, and Healthcare Decisions in Hands of Government
If You Don’t Want ObamaCare, Don’t Send Ohio Democrat Back to Washington

WASHINGTON — Today Betty Sutton voted against repealing her party’s big-government takeover of healthcare and ignored the wishes of families, seniors and small businesses in Ohio. Now, the only way for Ohio voters to take back their healthcare choices is to make sure Betty Sutton doesn’t return to Washington in 2013.

“The verdict is in – Betty Sutton has staked her political career in defense of the spiking premiums, $500 billion in Medicare cuts and job-killing taxes included in ObamaCare,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “As long as Sutton is in office, she and her party won’t stop increasing government control of our personal healthcare decisions. Ohio families cannot afford the damage ObamaCare is inflicting on our economy, and they can’t afford to send Sutton back.”

According to Gallup, far more Americans believe ObamaCare will hurt rather than help the economy:

“Americans are more likely to say the 2010 healthcare law upheld by the Supreme Court last week will hurt the national economy (46%) rather than help it (37%), while 18% say they don’t know or that it will have no effect.” (Frank Newport, “Americans See More Economic Harm Than Good in Health Law,” Gallup, 7/5/2012)

Democrats have sacrificed much – including their House majority – for their massive government takeover of healthcare, and Americans are showing no signs of allowing government to expand control of their personal healthcare decisions:

“As the brutal fight continued, the president sacrificed more and more in its name: an overhaul of energy and environmental laws, greater focus on economic issues, some of his own popularity and that of House Democrats, who eventually lost their hard-won majority.” (Jodi Kantor, “Wearing Brave Face, Obama Braces for Health Care Ruling,” New York Times, 6/23/2012)

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