Repeal Health Care Reform

The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is the broadest social and largest spending legislation signed into law in recent American history. I am proud to be an original cosponsor of Senator Jim DeMint's bill, S. 192, to repeal this job-killing health care law.  As the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services-Education, I have introduced multiple measures to strip the funding necessary to implement this egregious government overreach.  You may rest assured that I will continue to support any legislation on the federal level aimed at repealing and replacing the current health care law with real reforms that cut costs and increase coverage, not expand the government's role in your life.

Despite the false claims of improving health care for all, the health care reform law actually dramatically increases taxes, cuts deeply into Medicare programs, fails to prohibit federally funded abortions, interferes with the doctor-patient relationship, threatens job creation, and fails to control health care costs.  This expanded government role will also have disastrous effects on our fiscal and economic situation.  A new entitlement will never save our country money, no matter how much budgetary smoke and mirrors President Obama uses to try and make that case.  We simply cannot afford it.  Moreover, this new law will spawn massive bureaucracy and onerous regulations.  Businesses will not hire in such a burdensome and uncertain regulatory environment.  Red tape is the enemy of job creation.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the constitutionality of this law does not negate the fact that it is terrible policy.  The Supreme Court may not have rejected ObamaCare, but two-thirds of Americans do because it reduces quality and increases costs.  Moreover, the Court stated in its ruling what the Obama administration would not admit in its sales pitch to the American people: ObamaCare’s individual mandate creates yet another tax increase.  We must now redouble our efforts to repeal this job-killing tax hike and egregious government intrusion into private health care decisions.  In its place, we must enact market-based reforms that lower costs, improve quality of care, and restore the doctor-patient relationship.

Please click here for more information on how the Senate passed health will affect every American, and my thoughts on more meaningful reform. 

Please click here for more information on how the health care bill will affect Alabama residents.

Please click here to view Senator Shelby's floor speech on health care legislation.  (This is a three-part video.  Parts two and three can be accessed to the right of the main video screen.) 

Please click here to view Health Care “Reform” Implementation by the Numbers