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. 

The proposition that Congress has the power to order Americans to purchase insurance – or any other product – is contrary to the fundamental concept of individual liberty and antithetical to the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment.  If this precedent were to be upheld, the federal government will have assumed authority over every aspect of individual choice in the care of ourselves and our families: from what foods we choose to what physical activities we engage in.  Nor is this brave new doctrine limited to health care.  Once this precedent is established that government m

We have received some emails and calls on where Sen. McClintock stands on health care. Here is a speech that Sen. McClintock gave on health care reform to the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce on October 12, 2007.

You may remember two months ago that we had a major battle over the state budget, with some of us warning that despite the governor’s assurances, it was dangerously out of balance.  I’m afraid those post-partisan pigeons are already coming home to roost. The state Controller’s cash report was released yesterday, and the numbers are nothing short of appalling…