Wicker Floor Remarks on the 2nd Anniversary of Health Care Law

WASHINGTON, DC -- Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today spoke on the Senate Floor regarding the second anniversary of the President's health care law. Wicker highlighted the broken promises of the law and its effect on spending, jobs, premiums, and Medicare.

In part, Wicker said: "On Friday, two years will have passed since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. More than enough time has gone by to reveal the failures of this massive, burdensome piece of legislation.
The fact that 26 states -- more than half the country -- are part of a legal challenge currently under review by the Supreme Court points to an inevitable truth: This is a law that does not work.

Americans are right to be disappointed, and they are right to want repeal. A recent Gallup poll shows twice as many Americans think the law will make things worse for their families than those who believe it will make things better. Seventy-two percent think the "individual mandate" is unconstitutional.




The truth is that Americans deserve affordable, high-quality health care -- not a 2,700-page, big-government piece of legislation that taxes, spends, and regulates. The President's health-care law has not lowered the cost of health care as promised. It has not created jobs as promised. It has not reduced the deficit as promised. And so, this week, we mark an anniversary not with progress but with bitter realities."

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