“We shouldn’t let the White House have a six-hour taxpayer-funded infomercial on Obamacare,” Congressman Boehner told his colleagues today. “We need to crash the party.”
On The 55KRC Morning Show today, Boehner said he has no fears about going down to the White House and insisting that the president “scrap this bill” and start over with common-sense reforms, and noted that Republicans have the only bill that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says will lower health care costs. Have a listen:
“Republicans will insist ‘let’s scrap this bill and let’s start over’ in a bipartisan way, and let’s take common-sense steps for making our current system work better. And so, I have no fears about going down there and having a real discussion about how we can make our current system work better without mandates, without Medicare cuts, without big tax hikes. And the Congressional Budget Office has said that only our bill, the Republican bill, will lower premiums up to 10 percent here in the coming years. I mean, our bill actually does something about lowering the cost of health care; their bill will only raise it.” [LISTEN]
Boehner also said the proposal released this week by the president is pretty much the same health care takeover that’s been peddled for the last year by Democratic leaders. He says the proposal has already been rejected by voters and would also devastate small businesses:
“The president – instead of working in a bipartisan way – really doubled down on his massive government takeover of health care that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid have been pushing all year — you know, a plan the American people continue to reject.” [LISTEN]
“The employer mandate for small employers who don’t offer health insurance – under this bill, if they don’t, it’ll now cost them – instead of $750 per employee – it’s going to cost them $2,000 per employee.” [LISTEN]
In fact, an op-ed on Real Clear Politics called President Obama’s proposal a “job killer,” saying it would “raise taxes which would discourage employment” and “impose mandates on employers.”
And a new survey by Rasmussen today found that 56 percent of voters “strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats and think Congress should focus instead on smaller bills that address problems individually rather than a comprehensive plan.”
Boehner is going to keep fighting to stop a government takeover of health care and promote a better solution that drives down costs without raising taxes, imposing new mandates, or expanding government.
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READ MORE:
- With Millions Out of Work, President Pushes Another Health Care Takeover (2/22/10)
- Boehner: Why Talk About a Health Care Bill Americans Have Rejected? (2/10/10)
- Boehner Wants State Officials in White House Meeting on Health Care (2/9/10)
- Democrats Continue to “Scheme and Plot” to Pass Health Care Takeover (1/31/10)
- Survey: Majority of Ohioans Oppose Government Takeover of Health care (1/21/10)
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John:
I am so excited that you are working so diligently in attacking and dismantling this govenrmental takeover of our health care system. I hope that you will be considering to run for the Presidency yourself in 2012. If you do, you have my vote already.
By the way, one way we could finance a healthcare reform which would be equitable to all is to impose a .025 % National Sales tax on every consumer good. The middle class has been attacked enough. This type of tax would increase enough revenue to fund a healh care program plus some when you consider all the consumption there is in this nation. In addition, every class of person would pay into it not just the middle class. This promotes more fairness and equaltiy for all. Why should the small business owner or the common working man carry the burden alone. If the program is for all americans then all americans should contribute. Those are my thoughts and opinions.
Thank you for listening and keep fighting the good fight.
Your neigboring PA supporter.
Bonnie L. L’huillier
Dear Rep. Boehner,
Thank you for being a strong voice and leader in the House for those of us AGAINST the takeover of healthcare by the Obama administration. We are working hard here “on the outside” and truly appreciate your efforts more than you know.
Richelle Emery
Parma, OH
Please do not compromise on this issue. This is too important.
We need you to remain a strong conservative voice of the people. Please “scrap the bill”. Lean it out. Root cause it. Don’t give in, don’t give in.
Vote NO! Stop the Federal Government ‘Takeover’ of Healthcare! That’s it, nothing more…
Dear mr Boehner;
I am a person of disability and I do not want this because it may hurt the disability population
from living or climbing out of poverty. what i mean is if we can’;t pay our own way I would rather die if the
government pay my way. disabilitily need to have A way to pay with cash and with it trust in there dr not
to kill them..
All I can say is you Republicans had better not let Obama push you around. I am wondering about Scott Brown now wondering if he will be soft soaked.
Scrap the Bill is exactly what needs done. We do not need more debt piled up on the massive debt we have. If they did what they should do they would want to have the best bill they could have and not jump into something unknown. Besides it does not need to be done all at once. It needs to be done slowly. The reason Obama wants to get it all at once is so he can let his Union buddy require every person working in health care be a union member.
People……all this money that is being spent is our tax money and all that we can borrow from countries that are not our friends. Wake up people. The tea party people are right on target, they understand what is happening.
Scrap the Health care bill and start over.
If we want the collective health care costs to go down all we need to do it make indoor clean air(no smoking) the law across the land. Where they have already passed it, heart attacks dropped immediately by 36%. No telling exactly what other costs went down but certainly dropping the smoking rate reaps immediate and long term benefits without any fancy programs.
There’s a Very important aspect I’ve yet to see anyone even mention in Health Care – especially before tomorrow. This cradle to grave “National Electronic Medical Records Data Base.” Now if you wanted ” Universal Heathcare” without calling it “Universale Healthcare” without calling it “Universal Healthcare, what’s the first thing you’d need? Our … See Morepersonal iand very private medical nformation. Yes, hidden in the stimulas Pkg was 140 pages devoted to this with one single paragraph devoted to American’s whon care to “Opt out” of sharing your information. This is Unbelievably frightening to me ! There’s ” over 600,000 covered entities” per, The institute for Heath Freedom (Non Profit organization) that are part of this obviously COMING Electronic Health Records Data Base as again, I’ve seen no one fight to inform the American People of this. Thers’ alot of money to be made and Liberties to be completely Lost. Please help by copy and pasting this. Please, I need help with this before Thurs. We need to inform as many people and leaders as quickly as we can. Thanks fellow Americans
I doubt that you read all of your mail, and certainly not that from a life long card carrying demoncrat such as myself.
This health care reform battle has just left me scratching my head. My medicare dollar continues to worth less, but now it is supposed to cover the welfare recipient, and the lazy. I am all for extending ( or possibly even increasing ) the unemployment benefits due to job losses that are a result of the failing economy. and COBRA for those folks should cover what they had and possible be extended another 2 years. I am NOT in favor of handouts to the guys and gals that have never and will never work. This is not a reform bill, this is robbery of the middle class! Presdoent Obama and Nancy Palosi ( we call her Paloser in our home ) need to be replaced. I am not a tea bagger, or an Independent, I doubt that I will ever be a Republican. From what I have seen of you, I am hoping that you will considder throwing your hat into the ring for pres. We simply cannot afford this bill, not now and not in 2014. This is one demoncrat who would vote fpr you!
Frances Manion
francesterri@hotmail.com
Coolidge AZ