U.S. Senator Pat Roberts

Senator Roberts on SCOTUS Obamacare Ruling

During the debate over Obamacare, Democrats and the president claimed that the law would lower health care costs, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, protect Medicare, and allow Americans to keep their health care plans.  Two years later, it's clear that not one of those promises will be kept.  Instead, the health care law will drive up families' premiums by more than $2,000, force cash-strapped state governments to shoulder more than $100 billion in new Medicaid costs, take more than half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and encourage employers to drop health care coverage for up to 35 million Americans.  And far from creating jobs, the health care law will actually result in 800,000 fewer jobs over the next decade.  It's time to repeal Obamacare and replace it with commonsense, step-by-step reforms that will actually lower costs.

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Senator Roberts Slams Health Care Law on the Senate floor

Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and his GOP colleagues discuss their opposition to the health care reform law on the second anniversary of it being signed into law. The law is filled with overly burdensome regulations and costly provisions, cuts Medicare, raises billions in new taxes and increases premiums for families by $2,100 a year. "There's no such thing as free health care. Someone has to pay," said Sen. Roberts.