AFPNH - end ObamaCare?

Help us put an end to ObamaCare!

Are you ready for higher taxes, higher premiums, and fewer doctors? That’s what is coming our way as a result of ObamaCare, which starts in full next January.

That’s why the author of ObamaCare, Sen. Max Baucus, called the scheme a “train wreck.” He has announced his retirement, likely because he didn’t want to face the voters with this takeover of the health care system on his record!

Today, the U.S. House of Representative will vote to repeal ObamaCare, and we congratulate them for taking this important step. However, the Senate has pledged that they won’t take a similar vote, and President Obama said he would veto any effort to give us relief from this terribly flawed law.

One group – Americans for Prosperity – has always stood against ObamaCare. From the “Hands Off My Health Care” national tour when the bill was in Congress to our current efforts to defund and repeal this disastrous bill, we won’t stop our efforts to protect our citizens from federal bureaucrats running your health care.

AFP knows ObamaCare will mean that health insurance costs will double, that it will be harder to see doctors and that the 21 new taxes – all administered by the same IRS that admitted it targeted conservative groups– will undercut our economy.

To continue our efforts, we need your help. As a grassroots organization, we rely on the support of people like you to keep up the fight against ever growing government. Your contribution today of $25, $50, $100, $200 or more will allow us to continue our efforts to tell New Hampshire citizens about the dangerous, big government plans that liberals like President Obama have in store for us, and give us the tools to stop them!  

 

The President and his allies have taxpayer-funded agencies like the IRS and the Department of Health and Human Services that he is using to attack his opponents so he can grow government. However, AFP has committed citizens just like you that will not be intimidated for protecting our future. I’d say that’s more than a fair fight!

Live Free or Die,

Greg Moore

State Director

Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire

NRSC - Democratic Candidates Running From ObamaCare

From "Extremely Problematic" to "Train Wreck" - Democrats on Defense

Washington, D.C. - Last night during the South Carolina 1st Congressional District debate, Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch joined the chorus of Democrats who are running for office and running from ObamaCare.

As BuzzFeed notes Colbert Busch “was troubled by [ObamaCare's] cost and the burden it could put on employers”: "Obamacare is extremely problematic, it is expensive, it is a $500 billion cost than we originally anticipated, it's cutting into Medicare benefits and it's having companies lay off their employees because they are worried about the cost of it. That is extremely problematic, it needs an enormous fix," she said during a debate Monday night.

Colbert Busch's concerns echo fellow Democrats' disdain for the health care overhaul including Democrat Senator Max Baucus, the architect of ObamaCare, who recently called it a "train wreck" as well as Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller who said the Affordable Care Act is "beyond comprehension."

Democratic pollster Mark Mellman reinforced the internal uneasiness among Democrats over ObamaCare: “We already know that, left to its own devices, this doesn’t end up in a good place,” said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster. “Anyone who thinks this issue is done is fooling themselves.”

"Few issues are as personal and as tangible as health care," said NRSC Communications Director Brad Dayspring. "As costs continue to increase,  ObamaCare's taxes, mandates, and red tape will shock millions of Americans as the painful parts of the law are implemented over the next year. President Obama can rest easy after 2012, but  voters will remember that every incumbent Senate Democrat has their fingerprints all over this train wreck.  They're not alone. Members of Congress interested in being promoted to the Senate like Bruce Braley and Gary Peters have a $1 Trillion weight holding them down, and that's ObamaCare."

ObamaCare has gone from being an “abstract” discussion to a real life pain for families and businesses which has Democrats who supported this costly agenda like Bruce Braley, Mark Pryor, Mark Begich, Kay Hagan, Mary Landrieu, Jeanne Shaheen, John Barrow, Mark Udall, Gary Peters, Al Franken, Mark Warner, Tom Udall, Dick Durbin and Jeff Merkley in a tailspin. Vulnerable Democrats will be forced to face voters just as ObamaCare's tax hikes, mandates, fees, penalties, and red tape bureaucracy take shape over the next eight months.

ALG - Governor Jindal urges Louisiana legislature to block Medicaid expansion, saving $7.6 billion of taxpayer money

April 24, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement praising Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for urging the Louisiana legislature to block Medicaid expansion under the new federal health care law in a recent oped, "Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is bad for Louisiana":

"If the Louisiana legislature listens to Governor Jindal, Louisiana taxpayers will save $337 million from 2014 through 2019, and federal taxpayers another $7.3 billion over the same period, according to a Kaiser estimate. They will be helping to defend taxpayers across the country from an unsustainable expansion of the entitlement state.

"While some governors have caved on this issue, Bobby Jindal has stood on principle, and for that, he deserves the thanks of every taxpayer in the nation. Hopefully the legislature will listen to him, but should members vote to expand Medicaid, we urge Governor Jindal to veto it."

To view online: http://getliberty.org/governor-jindal-urges-louisiana-legislature-to-block-medicaid-expansion-saving-7-6-billion-of-taxpayer-money/

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Americans for Limited Government is a non-partisan, nationwide network committed to advancing free market reforms, private property rights and core American liberties. For more information on ALG please call us at 703-383-0880 or visit our website at www.GetLiberty.org.

ALG - House should not bail out Obamacare, it should defund it

April 24, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson released the following statement on attempts in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass HR 1549, a bill designed to extend an Obamacare program that has run out of money:

"House Republicans should abandon their latest attempt to fix Obamacare.  Rather than increasing funding for the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan that in spite of having lower than expected enrollment has been overrun with costs, the House should use their Constitutional power of the purse to defund it entirely.

"The fact that House leadership has refused to even consider defunding Obamacare to stop the implementation of this Frankenstein-like monster federal health law reflects poorly on their commitment to repeal the law in its entirety.

"The health care system concocted by Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi is going to fail under its own regulatory weight, and for House Republicans to attempt to prop up the system through piecemeal fixes at a time when even some labor unions are beginning to urge repeal, makes zero sense."

To view online: http://getliberty.org/house-should-not-bail-out-obamacare-it-should-defund-it/

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Americans for Limited Government is a non-partisan, nationwide network committed to advancing free market reforms, private property rights and core American liberties. For more information on ALG please call us at 703-383-0880 or visit our website at www.GetLiberty.org.

NRSC - Shaheen's Unaffordable Care Act

April 22, 2013

Shaheen's Unaffordable Care Act

Last week, the architect of President Obama's signature health care law "stunned administration officials," saying openly he thinks it's headed for a "train wreck."  "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama's health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense.

Not good.

Then yesterday, On Meet the Press' "Press Pass," Former Obama advisor Zeke Emanuel (Rahm's brother) said that Obamacare's uncertainty is driving up premium costs. "No one, not the hospitals, insurers, or the federal government, know how many people are going to come in. Are they going to be a broad representation of the uninsured or will only the sick come in? That is a big fear of the insurance companies. That why you're seeing an increase in the rates. They're worried, we'll only get the sick, we're going to pay a lot of money, so we're increasing the rates because of uncertainty."

Really not good.

Democrats responsible for the Affordable Care Act – including Jeanne Shaheen- promised that ObamaCare would make health care "more affordable." However, since President Obama took office, average Americans have seen the cost of health care increase by $3,000, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

ObamaCare - or the Unaffordable Care Act - is not just a “train wreck” for families trying to understand and cope with the new law. It's a disaster for Democrat Jeanne Shaheen who is responsible for it.