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Today marks one year of ObamaCare in America, and in a joint op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Congressman Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) look past Democrats’ hype to outline what we now know about the President’s $2.6 trillion law:Today marks one year of ObamaCare in America, and in a joint op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Congressman Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) look past Democrats’ hype to outline what we now know about the President’s $2.6 trillion law:

• INSTEAD OF ALLOWING YOU TO KEEP YOUR CURRENT PLAN IF YOU LIKE IT – “One recent study suggests as many as 35 million Americans could lose their employer-based health insurance...”
• RATHER THAN CREATE JOBS – According to the independent Congressional Budget Office, the health care law will result in the loss of more than 800,000 jobs over the next 10 years alone.”
• INSTEAD OF DECREASING THE DEFICIT – “[T]he administration's own top actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington now estimates that the law will increase national health care costs by $311 billion.”
• RATHER THAN LOWERING COSTS FOR AMERICANS – “[T]he new law… is expected to cause premiums on family insurance policies to increase by an average of $2,100 per year.”

Read the entire op-ed here.  Throughout the debate over health care, the American people were clear: they wanted reform that would lower costs and protect jobs.  Democrats didn’t listen.  As Boehner and McConnell make clear, it’s time for a new approach:

“Taken together, these broken promises illustrate why so many Americans continue to support a full repeal – which the new Republican-led House has passed – followed by commonsense reforms that will actually lower costs, improve care, and protect jobs. The fog of controversy has now cleared, but contrary to the confident predictions of some, the contents of this law are even worse than anyone expected. And that’s saying something.”