Before you even elected me, I said that repealing Obamacare would be one of my top priorities. As a candidate, I spoke out strongly against the president’s healthcare law and put forward my own competing plan for what I thought reform should look like. As your congressman, I went a step further and co-sponsored bills that turned many of those same conservative proposals into legislation, while voting dozens of times to repeal, defund and delay Obamacare. If you haven’t heard much about conservative alternatives, it’s because they weren’t allowed to be part of the discussion in 2009 when Democrats controlled every branch of government. The debate that took place in Washington wasn’t between the conservative plan and the liberal plan for health care. The debate was between the liberal plan and the very liberal plan. Republicans were shut out of that debate, and when the dust settled, Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote. When Republicans took back the House in 2011, Obamacare was sacred for Democrats, and we were told that anything but extremely minor changes to the law was dead on arrival in the Senate. Obamacare got off to a bad start. Instead of working together in a spirit of bipartisanship and passing a bill we could all agree on, we got a law that some people loved, but most people hated. After the bill passed, Democrats were willfully blind to the law’s problems. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised us that insurance premiums would go down, but for too many families the opposite happened. President Barack Obama promised us “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan,” but NBC, CBS, ABC, and the Washington Post have all debunked that statement as a lie. As of this writing, more than 2 million Americans have been told they won’t be able to keep their insurance policies. Even the promise that you would be able to keep your own doctor has been proven untrue in many circumstances. The examples of broken Obamacare promises are just too common to ignore. The Los Angeles Times reported on the story of Jennifer Harris, who was paying $98 a month for an individual insurance plan, but because of the new healthcare law will now be forced to pay $238 a month. Kirsten Powers, a former Democratic Party strategist and columnist for the Daily Beast reported that her insurance premiums will double as a result of Obamacare. A manufacturer in Anderson informed our office that its workers can expect to see premium increases of roughly 28 percent and 50 percent for the two plans they currently offer to their employees as a direct result of the healthcare law. In Oconee County, to comply with Obamacare the school district placed restrictions on the amount of hours a substitute teacher can work, taking money away from families who were counting on that source of revenue. To put it bluntly, Americans were lied to about the impact of Obamacare. Our country is in danger, and one of the greatest threats is from the direct and indirect costs of Obamacare. That’s why I’ve stood firm and used all the powers given to me by the people to try and stop this law from taking place. It’s not because it’s President Barack Obama’s law, and it’s not even because I disagree with most of what’s in the bill. I’m fighting with all my heart because I believe this law is poisoning America. Some pundits claim our push against the healthcare law hurt Republicans, but after the Obama administration showed they couldn’t even build a website properly let alone implement the largest healthcare reform in history, people are starting to realize why we had to have that fight. I think Americans will come to understand that Republicans spotted the iceberg long ago, and will thank us for trying to steer our country out of danger. If the examples I cited aren’t enough for you, I’d ask you to think about the future. How can we afford to borrow money to pay for a law that doesn’t even make healthcare more affordable for everyone? How are these increased costs and lost wages going to impact our families and our economy? And why do we continue to cheat our children and grandchildren by spending money we don’t have and make our country’s financial situation worse as a result?
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:47:34 +0000
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