Shea-Porter For Congress - Guinta votes to take money for students from health screenings rather than tax millionaires

New Hampshire- Today, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, who is running for Congress in the First Congressional District, released the following statement on Congressman Guinta's vote to raid the preventive health fund. 

 
"Congressman Frank Guinta and his party first refused to vote to keep student interest rates at 3.4% for college students. Political pressure from Democrats, students, and middle class families became too great, so Congressman Guinta raided the preventive health fund, that pays for screenings for breast cancer and cervical cancer among other things, to make up for the money that would have been collected from higher interest rates.  Congressmen Frank Guinta and Paul Ryan, instead of taking away tax loopholes for millionaires, are shifting resources from health screenings to students, hoping voters won't notice. Voters already have noticed."

NRCC - Obama May be in Hiding, but Shea-Porter is on Defensive When it Comes to Government Healthcare Takeover

New Hampshire Democrat Insists on Keeping the Government Takeover of Healthcare Even Though Voters Still Don’t Want it on its Second Birthday

WASHINGTON --- Although President Obama is markedly absent on celebrating the two-year anniversary of his government takeover of healthcare becoming law today, Carol Shea-Porter and her former House Democrat colleagues are more than willing to step up to the plate for this unpopular and troublesome law as they have in the past (Roll Call #165; Roll Call #167, 3/21/10). Someone has to do it, and Shea-Porter has shown she will fight repeal of the failing healthcare takeover despite the sky-high unpopularity, soaring costs and broken promises.

“Although even President Obama is ducking this dubious milestone, Carol Shea-Porter and her former House Democrat colleagues are more than willing to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to their government takeover of healthcare as it enters the terrible twos,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Shea-Porter has demonstrated a commitment to defending the disastrous healthcare takeover even though it is costing taxpayers more, causing premiums to rise and forcing families off their current healthcare plans.”

President Obama and Senate Democrats are conspicuously absent on the two-year anniversary of ObamaCare, but House Democrats are happy to defend it:

“President Barack Obama is talking about energy and jobs. Next week, he’s going to Korea. And not too many Senate Democrats plan on blowing out birthday candles for the law’s second anniversary this week. The law is divisive, and in swing states it’s an albatross for Democrats including the president and some of his Senate allies.

“So that leaves the House Democrats, many hailing from safe liberal districts where the health care law is popular, to soldier on like a lonely battalion defending the law and reminding the public of its benefits.” (Jonathan Allen, “The Obama Vacuum: House Dems defend health-care reform,” Politico, 3/21/12)

What House Democrats won’t tell you is that the law is as unpopular as it has ever been, after broken promises and soaring price tags:

“President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that ‘if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.’ It turns out that, for a lot of people, that isn’t true…

“And it’s not the only hard truth Obama and the law’s supporters are facing. No matter what they said about rising health care costs, those costs aren’t actually going to go down under health care reform. The talk about the law paying for itself is just educated guesswork. And people aren’t actually liking the law more as they learn more about it — and some polls show they are just getting more confused.” (David Nather, “Health care reform: 4 inconvenient truths,” Politico, 3/16/12)

 Obama May be in Hiding, but Shea-Porter is on Defensive When it Comes to Gov’t Healthcare Takeover http://ow.ly/9Q0aq #gopcodered

NRCC - Shea-Porter Hasn’t Changed Her Mind About ObamaCare … and Neither Have Voters

Two Years After the New Hampshire Democrat Voted for it, the Government Takeover of Healthcare Continues to Unravel

WASHINGTON --- It was two years ago today that Carol Shea-Porter voted for the government takeover of healthcare (Roll Call #165; Roll Call #167, 3/21/10) and unfortunately things have only gotten worse. Shea-Porter and her fellow Democrats insist the law is becoming more popular even though public opinion remains miserable as families are forced off their healthcare plans, premiums continue to rise and the price tag for taxpayers skyrockets.

“Carol Shea-Porter's stubborn defense of her government takeover of healthcare after two long years demonstrates just how out of touch she is with the families who are being forced off their health plans or seeing their premiums rise,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Instead of blaming her former New Hampshire constituents for not understanding the law enough, Shea-Porter should recognize her healthcare takeover’s broken promises and failed policies.”

House Democrats claim their government takeover of healthcare will only help them this election year:

“Despite those numbers, [Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman Xavier] Becerra said Democratic candidates shouldn’t shy away from supporting the law.

“‘I don’t believe for a moment that if a candidate stands up and talks about increasing access to good doctors in a hospital that he won’t find himself in good stead with the voters,’ Becerra said. ‘Anyone who believes that the Affordable Care Act is good has a good chance of being elected to office and should stand by that.’” (Ed O’Keefe, “Democrats: The more Americans learn, the more they love health-care reform,” The Washington Post’s 2chambers Blog, 3/19/12)

But polls continue to show voters across America strongly disagree:

“This ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans oppose the law overall by 52-41 percent. And 67 percent believe  the high court should either ditch the  law or at least the portion that requires nearly all Americans to have coverage.” (Greg Holyk, “As Health Care Law’s Trial Approaches, Two-Thirds Say Ditch Individual Mandate,” ABC News, 3/19/12)

 Shea-Porter Hasn't Changed Her Mind About ObamaCare…and Neither Have Voters http://ow.ly/9MWD2 #codered

Shea-Porter for Congress - Rep. Guinta casts deciding vote on Ryan Budget

New Hampshire-   Yesterday, Congressman Frank Guinta cast the deciding vote to pass the Ryan Budget out of the Budget Committee by a vote of 19-18. Among other proposals, The House Budget continues the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and extends corporate welfare programs, cuts nutrition for women and children, decreases Pell grants for students, hurts seniors, cuts money for veterans' programs, and cuts transportation funding. Today, former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, who is running for the NH-01 Congressional seat, released the following statement on that vote.

"Congressman Guinta cast the deciding vote to hurt America's middle class. Mr. Guinta cut funding for veterans by 13%, cut the very nutrition programs he claimed he was protecting in his franked mail to women last week, and cut money to help NH families educate their kids, starting from Head Start through college. Congressmen Guinta and Ryan raced this bill through the full committee in just 24 hours, without even allowing members to read it, because our tea partier congressman knew this bill was too extreme for them and too extreme for New Hampshire also."

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NRCC - Doctors Decry Shea-Porter's Board of Medicare Slashing Bureaucrats

New Hampshire Democrat’s Government Takeover of Healthcare Empowered 15 Bureaucrats in Washington to Deny Access to Care and Raise Costs for Seniors on Medicare

WASHINGTON --- When Carol Shea-Porter threw her support behind the government takeover of healthcare (Roll Call #165; Roll Call #167, 3/21/10), this included the controversial Independent Advisory Payment Board (IPAB) which allows a board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to deny access to care and raise costs for seniors on Medicare. It’s no wonder that doctor and patient groups across the country oppose this provision of Shea-Porter's healthcare takeover, since 15 bureaucrats in Washington would stand between seniors on Medicare and their doctors.

“With her support for the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare, Carol Shea-Porter seems to believe that 15 unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington are better equipped to make healthcare decisions than seniors and their doctors,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “It should come as no surprise that this Medicare-slashing panel in Shea-Porter's government healthcare takeover has attracted the opposition of dozens of medical groups representing over 400,000 doctors.”

Forty-one medical organizations representing 400,000 doctors and their patients have called for the repeal of IPAB:

“Leaving payment policy decisions in the hands of an unelected, unaccountable governmental body with minimal congressional oversight will negatively impact the availability of quality, efficient health care to Medicare beneficiaries and all Americans…

“America’s physicians are also concerned that the strict budgetary targets and other limitations imposed on the IPAB will ultimately threaten the ability of our nation’s seniors and disabled to obtain the health care they need, when they need it.” (Letter from Healthcare Stakeholders, House Energy and Commerce Committee, 3/5/12)

The House will be voting to repeal IPAB later this week:

“House Republicans have set up a vote next week to repeal a board created by the 2010 healthcare law that the GOP has criticized as a rationing board that could force Medicare cuts without congressional approval.” (Pete Kasperowicz, “House to vote on health board repeal,” The Hill’s Healthwatch Blog, 3/13/12)

 Doctors Decry Shea-Porter's Board of Medicare Slashing Bureaucrats http://ow.ly/9LEeB #codered