(Washington, DC) – Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 45, a bill to comprehensively repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), most commonly known as Obamacare. H.R. 45 is the first vote for full repeal of Obamacare in the 113th Congress.
Representative Larry Bucshon (IN-08) released the following statement:
“Because of this ‘train wreck’ of a law, many Americans are losing their employer provided health insurance, having their workweek cut back to part-time, and seeing their premiums increase while businesses are strapped with job killing taxes, like the medical device tax. This specific tax has already caused many businesses to scrap plans to expand and create much needed jobs here in Indiana.
“As a physician, I understand that this law fails to help patients get access to quality, affordable healthcare, prevents businesses from expanding and creating much needed jobs, and puts government bureaucrats between the patient and their doctor. The IRS is intrusive, untrustworthy and is targeting American citizens on the basis of politics, yet this agency is expanded by Obamacare and will be responsible for the implementation of much of the law.
“It is no wonder 49 percent of the American people have said the law is so complicated they are having a hard time figuring out how implementation will affect their family. As a physician and member of Congress, I am part of that 49 percent.
“That is why I am proud to support our nation’s patients by voting to repeal this disastrous law so that we can replace it with common sense, patient centered reforms.â€
BACKGROUND:
Rep. Bucshon participated in a press conference with the GOP Doctors Caucus to highlight the third anniversary of Obamacare becoming law. He also spoke on the House floor yesterday to explain why Obamacare should be repealed. That video can be accessed here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrwJft46NPc.
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Indiana is home to over 300 medical device companies, creating over 54,800 jobs that pay an average salary of $59,706 dollars and the medical device industry provides a $50 billion dollars to Indiana’s economy. The healthcare law levies a 2.3% excise tax on this industry. Because of this, many companies have decided not to expand and many across the county have announced layoffs.
The House has voted 37 times to fully and partially repeal, defund, or dismantle the law. Of those votes, 7 different bills have been signed into law that directly repeal or rescind funding from at least 8 different Obamacare provisions.
On March 14, 2013, members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to 17 of the nation’s largest health insurance companies requesting analyses of the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA’s) policies, mandates, taxes, and fees on health insurance premiums. The report can be found here – http://energycommerce.house.gov/rate-shock.
The report, “chronicles the massive premium increases awaiting Americans when full implementation of the PPACA occurs in eight months, definitively contradicting the promise that the law will lower costs. As this report demonstrates, consumers purchasing health insurance on the individual market may face premium increases of nearly 100 percent on average, with potential highs eclipsing 400 percent. Meanwhile, small businesses can expect average premium increases in the small group market of up to 50 percent, with potential highs over 100 percent.â€
Ah hell, just vote to make slavery legal again and get this all over with.
yeh, it’s happening.
Socialism makes all of us slaves to a system.
Wealth gap at all time high and growing. Where’s this socialism of which you speak?
LOL! There is always a wealth gap under socialism. See “Animal Farm.”
Socialism merely replaces the entrepreneurial/business class with the aparatchik/Politburo class.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except dumber and more oppressive.
My point was this whole oppression of the rich being touted by Fox News and gimmicks like Joe the plumber are false.
No argument, there.
In the US, the uber-rich have figured out how to hide behind the poor while plundering the middle class.
Here is how they do it:
a) Tax income at a rate high enough to ensure that it is impossible to become independently wealthy through work alone. The uber-rich don’t work, so it’s no skin off their backs.
b) Keep capital gains taxes to a minimum
c) Ensure that the tax code is so byzantine and so oppressive that only the uber-rich can truly take advantage of it.
d) For god’s sake, do NOT tax consumption!
e) Spout off loudly and often about the “social safety net,” which benefits mainly the poor but is funded almost entirely by the middle class via income taxes.
f) Make sure that education is a requirement for any kind of decent job but so expensive that you spend 1/3 of your career paying off debt.
g) For that matter, give everyone ready access to credit so that they “feel” wealthier than they really are.
Most billionaires in western societies are socialists. Why? Because if you’re a billionaire, that’s where the money is. LOL.
To be rich in America today is to be hated by people who are driven by envy, vilified by the President in public, to have to hire private security for protection, and to be thought to be a thief even when the wealth was earned from work. It is no picnic being rich in this country dude. I know of cases in Evansville where the children of attorneys and doctors have been hazed at school for being spoiled little rich kids just because their parents earn a good salary. With treatment like this it is no wonder that the rich live behind gates and are reluctant to hand out money to those who hate them. Try treating them like people. You may be surprised at how real and human some of the hated rich really are.
I’m not talking about children of attorneys and doctors…You think that is “rich?” LOL!
That’s part of the problem, too. We have no commonly accepted definition of what the word means.
I’m talking about the billionaire socialists like Warren Buffet, Wall Street hedge fund guys, etc. The kind of guys who can buy and sell Evansville doctors about 1,000 times over.
Worst and most expensive healthcare in the developed world, and we have people screaming to continue it. I wonder why?
Medical care will be a damned sight more expensive in 2014. If you think it’s bad now, just wait until January; then you can tell us how miserable you will be then!
How do them damn liberal socialist countries provide better care at lower cost?
While it is true that a lot of other countries do provide “better care at a lower cost,” it is overly simplistic to suggest that it is because their “socialist” system is superior to ours.
Many of the other countries have better public health to begin with–better diets, better health-related behaviors, and less utilization of the highest cost nodes in the care continuum (i.e., Emergency Rooms, specialists, etc.).
The best thing bout the PPACA is that it lays the groundwork for a shared cost/shared outcomes model in which all players in the care continuum, from acute care hospitals to nursing homes, will have to share information as well as costs. This, moreso than the insurance mandate, is what will ultimately “save” the US healthcare system, imo.
As a non-taxpayer I do not have a dog in this fight. The law in question can be found in title 26 section 5000. Title 26 is the IRS code. If you are a taxpayer and this law is not repealed you may find yourself under other laws that are atrocious.
Congressman Bucshon has done great work for our District. He is a real American standing up to Obama’s socialist/progressive policies designed to bankrupt the Country both fiscally and morally.
Yeah, he designs policies to deliberately bankrupt the country because he is a Muslim, right? Time to double up on your meds, pal.
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