In 2009, President Obama began working with the Democrat controlled House and Senate to create a law that would significantly change America's current health care system. Their solution, commonly referred to as "Obamacare," was to overhaul the system and dramatically increase the government's role in health care. To pay for this massive expansion, individuals would be forced to take part in purchasing health care.

The controversial health care overhaul was hotly debated across the country in the months leading up to House and Senate votes. Major concerns involved with "Obamacare" are:

·         Unemployment numbers will rise.Businesses, who are already struggling to grow and hire new workers, will be made to provide expensive, government-run health care or pay high federal taxes.

·         America can't afford this expensive law."Obamacare's" price tab estimate continues to rise and is currently estimated to cost over $1.76 trillion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

·         You may lose your current health care, even if you wish to keep it. Businesses are given  incentives to provide government-run health care over private health care. Employers may choose to drop the current health care they provide employees in order to save money.

·         Religious freedoms will be overstepped by government. Religious organizations will be required by law to provide free sterilization, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs to their employees, even if this violates their religious beliefs. Not only does this violate religious freedom, but it is, inadvertently, a tax.

·         States could be forced to ration Medicare.

·         Health care costs will rise. Hospitals, doctors, businesses and consumers all expect health costs to rise under the law. Family policy costs have risen by $2,200 per year during the Obama Administration.

·         Federal government's role in individual's life is too invasive. The law's individual mandate would force Americans who do not take part in a private or government-run health care program to pay a fine.

On March 23, 2010, "Obamacare" was signed into law with no Republican Congressional support in either the House or Senate. As some of the effects of the law began to take place, twenty-six states across the nation, along with some organizations and individuals, filed suites with the federal court contesting the constitutionality of the law.   

On June 28th, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, voted to uphold the vast majority of the President's health care law.

I am extremely disappointed and shocked by the Court's decision to uphold this bad law. It severely alters the federal government's control over the lives and decisions of Americans and goes against what our Founding Fathers clearly laid out in the Constitution for the direction of our country. We must have limits on the federal government.

The President and Democratic Congress chose to push through a bill that will make our health care system worse under the false representation that this law would not be a tax. Conversely, the Supreme Court ruled that 'Obamacare' and the individual mandate will stand as a tax.

I will continue to fight for a full repeal of 'Obamacare.' I believe in the Constitution and that Americans - not Washington - should be in charge of their own health care decisions. Americans' right to choose must be protected.

I look forward to the November elections with the hope that a Republican President will be able to work with Congress to strike down this bad law and repeal this outrageous tax thrust upon U.S. citizens and businesses.