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November 23, 2010
During an interview today with Brian Thomas on Cincinnati’s 550 KRC-AM, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) said that Republicans have heard the clear message Americans sent on Nov. 2, and will follow through on their demands for a smaller, more accountable and less costly government. Boehner also discussed the need to stop all the coming tax hikes and repeal the costly new health care law that is keeping small businesses from growing and hiring. Key excerpts are included below: Testing
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November 10, 2010
The state rebellion against ObamaCare, which started last March in Virginia and grew to include twenty other states plus the National Federation of Independent Business, will only grow stronger next year. With only one in six Americans content with the Democrats’ job-killing government takeover of health care, it was only inevitable that the Administration and Washington Democrats would continue to face resistance from states.
Pam Bondi, Florida’ Attorney General-Elect, noted in an appearance on Fox News’ On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren that “we could have a total of 28 states joining in this lawsuit” against the unconstitutional, job-killing mandates in ObamaCare. Those states include: Oklahoma, Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Maine, and California. As Professor Ilya Somin noted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday: “When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory.” It’s not just the states that are revolting against ObamaCare, though. In the House of Representatives, the new Republican majority has vowed to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare. As Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), the Chairman of the GOP Majority Transition Committee, said on Fox News last night: We are going to do everything we can to repeal and replace the health care bill. This is a job-killing law. We know that from the Congressional Budget Office, we know that from Suffolk University, both of whom said 780,000 jobs can be lost. Let’s get health care reform that doesn’t cost jobs and can bend down the cost curve. This new law does neither of that.Whether it’s in the Congress or in the states, ObamaCare and its job-killing employer mandate will be challenged relentlessly. And it’s not a moment too soon, because Kaiser Health News reported today that ObamaCare’s job-killing employer mandate will lead small businesses, responsible for more than 60 percent of all new jobs in America, to drop health care coverage all together, leaving employers with the choice of hiring fewer people, dropping coverage, or both: One of the most fundamental ideas in the new health law is that employers should offer health insurance to their workers, or else they would have to pay a penalty, beginning in 2014. The fear has been that many businesses would opt for ‘or else,’ leaving their workers searching for coverage....Twenty percent [of small businesses] - one-fifth - told Mercer they are ‘likely’ to stop offering health plans once people have the option of buying insurance from state-run exchanges, virtual marketplaces.With the “invisible” unemployment rate above 11 percent and “five unemployed workers available for every job opening,” according to the New York Times, it’s imperative that the states and Congress do everything their power to stop the job-killing mandates in ObamaCare. Republicans have listened to Americans, who have been asking “where are the jobs?”and offered better solutions in the Pledge to America, including extending all the current tax rates, cutting spending back to pre-“stimulus,” pre-bailout levels, and repealing and replacing ObamaCare. Read more here: GOP.gov/pledge or visit the Pledge Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/PledgeToAmerica.
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September 24, 2010
In this week's Constituent Mailbag, Congressman Boehner responds to Jim in Hamilton. Jim, a small business operator in southwest Ohio, says that taxes and mandates in ObamaCare will hurt his ability to hire and invest. Boehner says:
Republicans’ new governing agenda, “A Pledge to America,” recognizes that the American people continue to squarely oppose the government takeover of health care, with its higher costs, higher taxes, job-killing mandates, and Medicare cuts to pay for a massive new entitlement. This agenda, released by Boehner and other Republican leaders yesterday, contains a plan to repeal and replace the job-killing health care law with common-sense reforms focused on lowering costs and protecting American jobs.
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September 20, 2010
President Obama is re-launching his health care plan for the umpteenth time this week, touting “people who are already benefiting from” ObamaCare in a speech on Wednesday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. We’ve heard this story before – just last week, POLITICO reported that “the White House and its allies are plotting campaigns they hope can bolster public opinion of the health care overhaul and improve the Democrats’ chances at the polls this fall.”
But the Journal report noted that: “public support for the law continues to lag....In recent weeks, insurance companies have started mailing consumers letters informing them of double-digit rate increases starting this month, partially attributing them to the mandates that begin Thursday.” This morning’s Denver Post detailed the havoc that ObamaCare is already wrecking in Colorado: Health-insurance companies are raising rates in Colorado, ending sales of child-only policies and blaming their actions in part on the federal health reform law... No wonder a whopping 61 percent of Americans want to repeal ObamaCare, according to a recent Rasmussen survey. Yesterday’s Cincinnati Enquirer published an editorial which eloquently summarized the myriad reasons why Americans have rejected ObamaCare: After claiming reform would save $143 billion over 10 years, proponents now admit - and figures confirm - that it will raise costs. ‘Bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do,’ President Obama now explains. This despite all the smoke and mirrors used to arrive at those rosy figures - such as projected savings from cutting waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, which are speculative at best. Strip away the gimmicks, noted former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, and the $143 billion ‘savings’ turns into a $562 billion deficit over 10 years....To create jobs and get our economy moving again, we need to repeal this job-killing health care law and replace it with common-sense reforms that lowers costs and protects American jobs.
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September 15, 2010
Democrats just can’t accept that the American people have decided that they don’t want ObamaCare, but as POLITICO reported this morning, “[t]he White House and its allies are plotting campaigns they hope can bolster public opinion of the health care overhaul and improve the Democrats’ chances at the polls this fall.” The ObamaCare charm offensive has been re-cast more times than a Lindsay Lohan movie.
POLITICO has the details on the Democrats’ latest attempt to “sell” the American people on ObamaCare: [T]he Obama administration and its allies hope tough new insurance restrictions due to go into effect Sept. 23 and an accompanying public relations push will help turn the tide and give Democrats campaign-ready ammunition six weeks ahead of the midterm elections…..The Obama administration is planning multiple efforts, involving senior officials, to communicate the insurance reforms both in person and online, a White House aide told POLITICO…. But as the story noted, “[s]upport for the health law has dropped since it passed in March.” In fact, a Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection survey released just yesterday found that just 38 percent of Americans support ObamaCare – a finding consistent with other recent surveys. It’s hard to sell ObamaCare when Americans hear how their health care costs will continue to skyrocket, despite President Obama’s statement that “we passed health insurance reform to make coverage affordable.” And today’s New York Times reports that the lawsuit by 20 states and the National Federation of Independent Business challenging ObamaCare’s unconstitutional mandates is moving forward: A federal judge indicated on Tuesday that he would give a green light to a lawsuit filed by elected officials from 20 states who are challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law and its requirement that most individuals obtain medical insurance....His comments from the bench on Tuesday suggested initial skepticism of the federal government’s claim that an individual’s decision to not purchase insurance constitutes commercial ‘activity’ that can be regulated by Congress. ‘You’re trying to turn the word upside down and say activity is really equivalent to inactivity,’ Judge Vinson at one point challenged Ian H. Gershengorn, a deputy assistant United States attorney general. It’s time for out-of-touch Washington Democrats to face facts and start listening to the American people so we can repeal this job-killing health care law and replace it with common-sense reforms that lower costs and protect American jobs.
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September 09, 2010
From the get-go, the debate over health care was about costs. President Obama promised any bill he signed into law would “start by lowering the cost of health care by up to $2,500 per family,” but that’s not what the American people are getting from the massive government takeover of health care he signed into law earlier this year. In fact as it turns out, a number of studies have since confirmed what employers have already been saying: that ObamaCare— with its tax hikes, higher costs, and Medicare cuts to establish a new federal entitlement and massive new bureaucracies — will actually raise costs, hitting small businesses and families at a time they can least afford it. Today’s Wall Street Journal has the latest: While the White House desperately continues to try and find ways to “repackage” and “resell” ObamaCare, Republicans are standing with the American people who want nothing to do with this government takeover of health care. Yesterday, in a meeting with reporters and editorial writers at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Boehner vowed to repeal ObamaCare before it “bankrupts the country” and promised Republicans would replace it with common-sense reform to lower health care costs for families and small businesses. From the Enquirer’s Opinionati blog:
All year long House Republicans have been listening to the American people and offering better solutions to lower health care costs and increase access to quality care. In fact, Boehner supported the House Republican alternative that the non-partisan congressional budget office confirmed would have lowered premiums by up to 10 percent.
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September 07, 2010
In the latest sign of discontent within Democratic ranks, Washington Democrats are denying paternity of ObamaCare, even “making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it,” according to a report in POLITICO. The story continued, noting that:
At least five of the 34 House Democrats who voted against their party’s health care reform bill are highlighting their ‘no’ votes in ads back home. By contrast, party officials in Washington can’t identify a single House member who’s running an ad boasting of a ‘yes’ vote — despite the fact that 219 House Democrats voted in favor of final passage in March. One Democratic strategist said it would be ‘political malfeasance’ to run such an ad now....But an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey out today found that only 24 percent of Americans believe that ObamaCare “has made things better,” while a recent CNN/Opinion Research survey found that 56 percent of Americans oppose ObamaCare and 56 percent oppose the unaffordable and unconstitutional ‘individual mandate’ at the heart of the new law, while support for repeal of ObamaCare remains strong, according to Rasmussen Reports. A story in today’s Seattle Times illustrates why the American people remain squarely against the job-killing government takeover of health care that the Democrats’ jammed down the throats of the American people earlier this year: Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies....Regence BlueShield's rate increase — an average 16.5 percent — was one of the highest. It was topped by Asuris Northwest Health, a Regence subsidiary, with an increase of 23.7 percent. Group Health Cooperative, the fifth-largest insurer of individuals, was considerably lower, with an 8.2 percent increase. But its newer program, Group Health Options, asked for a 22 percent increase. Yet out-of-touch Washington Democrats continue to insist that ObamaCare will reduce costs and make health care more “affordable,” as Speaker Pelosi reiterated last week. Just yesterday, President Obama said that “we passed health insurance reform to make coverage affordable.” But between reports from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Seattle Times indicating that health care costs will skyrocket under ObamaCare, the Democrats’ claims that their government takeover of health care will make health insurance more affordable doesn’t pass the straight-faced test. In fact, House Republicans proposed the only health care reform plan that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said would actually lower health care premiums by up to 10 percent and reduce the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses. But instead of working with Republicans, out-of-touch Washington Democrats jammed their government takeover of health care through Congress, thumbing their noses at the American people who were – and remain – vehemently opposed to ObamaCare. Democrats may run, buy they can’t hide from their support of ObamaCare.
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September 02, 2010
A new study out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation confirms what millions of families and small businesses already know: health care costs have continued to spiral upwards, despite promises by Washington Democrats that their government takeover of health care would “make health care more affordable…stabilizing family budgets, the Federal budget, and the economy,” as the White House website touts. The study found that “workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage – an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year.”
The following chart, included in the Kaiser Foundation’s “Employer Health Benefits 2010 Annual Survey,” illustrates that ObamaCare has failed to “bend the cost curve,” as the President promised:
During the 2008 campaign, then-Senator Obama said time and time again that any health care plan he signed would “bring down health care costs by $2,500 for the typical family,” but the Obama Administration’s own actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rebuffed that claim shortly after ObamaCare was jammed down the throats of the American people, finding that the Democrats’ new law will actually increase national health care costs over the next 10 years by $311 billion. Now even Washington Democrats and their special interest allies are “abandoning claims” that ObamaCare will lower costs, as POLITICO reported recently: “Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit… The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House’s first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed.” These revelations followed the release of a national survey showing that “employers are bracing for more health care cost increases over the next few years as the new health care law unfolds…” All told, employers expect costs to go up nearly nine percent and “plan to share some of that burden with employees via higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket limits.” It didn’t have to be this way. House Republicans proposed the only health care reform plan that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said would actually lower health care premiums by up to 10 percent and reduce the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses. But instead of working with Republicans, out-of-touch Washington Democrats jammed their government takeover of health care through Congress, thumbing their noses at the American people who were – and remain – vehemently opposed to ObamaCare.
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August 30, 2010
Liberal special interest groups, who helped to ram ObamaCare through the Democratic-controlled Congress over the objections of the American people, are now sprinting away from their government takeover of health care, “abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and the deficit,” and urging Democrats to “talk about something else.” As POLITICO reported this morning:
The progressive coalition Health Care for America Now fought hard to pass health care reform. Now it’s fighting hard to help reelect lawmakers who voted for the bill – even if it means not talking about it...HCAN’s field crews are finding that the best way to support reform-friendly lawmakers is to talk about something else: jobs, the economy or other issues likely to resonate with voters more....A recent CNN survey found that a majority of Americans opposed ObamaCare, while a full “58 percent favor repeal of the new national health care law,” according to a Rasmussen survey out this morning. That’s hardly changed from earlier this year, when an Associated Press-GfK survey found that: “Americans oppose the health care remake 50 percent to 39 percent.” Back then, the Associated Press noted that “Democrats hope to change public opinion by calling attention to benefits available this year for seniors, families with children transitioning to work and people shut out of coverage because of medical problems.” Now, liberals are simply running from it. When it comes to liberals and ObamaCare, the first rule is ‘don’t talk about ObamaCare.’ Republicans remain focused on listening to the American people and “deliberately reaching out to the grass roots” through America Speaking Out and offering better solutions to get people working again, like repealing and replacing ObamaCare with reforms focused on lower costs.
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August 10, 2010
Last weekend, the President used his weekly address to try his sales pitch once again on seniors who remain highly skeptical of ObamaCare. However, there is very good reason seniors have not been swayed by the Administration’s efforts to win their support for the new law. Despite the President’s campaign, bolstered by a $700,000 taxpayer-funded ad attempting to assure seniors that their benefits won’t be affected by the ObamaCare, seniors know that the President’s rhetoric simply does not add up. According to today’s POLITICO: "Despite the administration’s focus on persuading seniors that the health care law is a good deal for them, there are increasing signs that they are not being swayed.
Recently, the non-partisan website factcheck.org found that claims made in the taxpayer-funded ObamaCare ad were false, stating that “[T]he truth is, for millions of seniors, benefits won’t remain the same.” Factcheck.org cited a report by the Administration’s own Medicare actuary which found that ObamaCare could force as many as seven million Americans off of their current Medicare coverage.
In his weekly address, the President claimed that his Administration’s policies have added 12 years to Medicare’s expected solvency. Unfortunately, the facts once again don’t support the President’s rhetoric. According to the Medicare actuary, “the highly touted gain of 12 years of additional solvency for Medicare from the health overhaul is largely an ‘appearance,’ stemming from how Medicare cuts are handled under federal accounting rules.” The President also touted prescription reimbursement checks that have gone out to seniors. What the President didn’t mention, however, was that only one in 10 seniors will receive the one-time benefit. It is clear that President Obama’s latest $700,000 PR blitz cannot obscure the facts about ObamaCare: It will force millions of seniors off Medicare, cut benefits, and raid Medicare funds to create a massive new entitlement. The American people, and especially American seniors, deserve better. |
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