Repealing Obamacare
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. January 18, 2011.
M. Speaker:
The central promises of Obamacare were that it would bend health costs down and wouldn’t threaten existing plans.
We now know that both these claims were false.
The CBO warns that this law will increase average private premiums by $2,100 within five years above what they otherwise would have been without Obamacare. The administration’s own actuary admits that the law bends the cost curve up – not down – by $311 billion over the next ten years.
And we now know that many existing plans are indeed jeopardized and that scores of companies that offered their employees basic plans have either dropped them or continue them only with waivers left to the whims of Administration officials.
But the most dangerous provision of this law is the federal government’s assertion that it has the power to force every American to purchase products the government believes they should purchase, whether or not they want them, need them, or can afford them.
If this precedent prevails, the federal government will have usurped authority over every aspect of individual choice in the care of our families and can logically extend that power to every other commodity in the market.
The tragedy is that every day we continue down this road is a day we have lost to address the real problems in our healthcare system: the spiraling costs of malpractice litigation and defensive medicine, the loss of freedom to shop across state lines, the loss of freedom to tailor plans to the needs of individuals and families, and the absence of the tax advantages that families need to afford and choose their own health plan according to their own needs.
Churchill said, “All men make mistakes but wise men learn from them.”
The American people understand that Obamacare was a huge mistake. Let us acknowledge that, learn from it, and move on to enact the reforms that will reduce health costs and increase health care choices for families.
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Health Care is one of the
Health Care is one of the most debated issue in our country. That 1099 repeal would be a slam dunk in the U.S. Senate was no surprise. Of all the contention over health care reform, 1099 repeal, removing a problem to small company, brought both sides in the U.S. Senate briefly together. As foreseen, the GOP amendment calling for repeal of the health care reform law did not pass.
Drop the Repeal
Dear Tom,
Please stop this rediculous repeal of the Obama Plan. Let the courts decide and take care of this.
I was priced out of my insurance plan I have had since I was 20. I am now 53 and no longer able to afford the increased price of insurance.
Spend your time helping the President to create jobs. Help bring industry to California. America can not afford to wait.
Thank you.
We need jobs and legislation to lock and get something done that is important to your district like
Obamacare
Why stop at Obamacare, why not repeal Medicare, Medicade and the Veterans
mdeical? they are all socialist programs. And why don't you and the rest of
the republicans opt out of your health care? Are you and the rest too
eliteist?
you want to cut spending, why don't you give up your state car and your per
deim? You want everybody to do thier part, why not lead by example? you and
the rest of your party like to say "NO" to everything the Dems bring up, but
where are your Ideas? You want cuts try cutting your staff and expenses. You
have no problem feeding at the public trough for all you can get and want the
public to do without. Why don't you and your fellow republicans try to cut
your expenses and see how effective it is. bet you won't make one cut to your
staff or expenses, nor give up your state car and per diem. No member of the
state congress should be allowed to get per diem. you want to be a public
servant, then serve for free!
Dan has it partially right
Dan,
Instead of forwarding the discussion, you are making a ridiculous assertion that one must be altruistic to have credibility. If you had instead focused on the detrimental effects of the programs you accurately called "socialist" and the special treatment our elected aristocrats enjoy, not unlike Roman aristocrats before the barbarian invaders were almost welcomed by the normal, practically endentured, citizens, I would agree with you. You go too far, perhaps in an attempt to make a point. How about you use your creativity and rationally think through what you would like to see happen?
Repealing Obamacare
Tom,
I hear you loud and clear regarding repealing Obamacare, but I am extremely uncomfortable with lack of an alternative plan to cover uninsured Americans. Under the previous regulations, hospitals were required to treat people regardless if they were insured or not, which essentially provided the uninsured expensive emergency care only.
Please provide your supporters of the details of your plan to provide all Americans medical coverage and decrease medical costs. Perhaps your position is to make medical coverage optional for all Americans, but in this case, let's stop mandating that hospitals treat the uninsured.
Your anti-Obama rhetoric and only be effective if you can provide a clearly understood alternative. Please don't be like many of the Republicans which seem to only criticize, but offer no better alternatives.
I would also encourage you and your colleagues in Congress to adopt the same medical coverage or program that you legislate for the rest of America. Only then will we know that the Republicans are truly committed to reform. It's a bit hypocritical to pass laws that do not equally apply to our representatives.
repeal and replace
I am glad that 100% of republicans voted to repeal Obamacare. I hope that republicans will do special orders to document all that is wrong with Obamacare and what republican will do to make things right. I remember in 1993-4 when Newt Gingrich was always on the House floor doing a special order on a varitey of subjects hammering away at what needed to be done. Americans had a clear idea of what republicans would do if given the opportunity to lead. That led to the victory of 1994. Please do special orders so that republicans will have even greater victories in 2012.