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THE OBAMACARE AFTERMATH: REPEAL AND REPLACE DIANNE FEINSTEIN
This post originally appeared at FlashReport.org
By Elizabeth Emken, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate
June 29, 2012
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court managed to do the unthinkable – give both sides of the controversial Obamacare issue even greater resolve. Democrats are cheering because they think they’ve won the battle. Republicans are encouraged because we’re more committed than ever to win the war.
The high court’s decision to uphold Obamacare makes it crystal clear that the only way to ensure that Americans defeat this dishonest attempt at health care reform is to take back the White House and the U.S. Senate this November.
That’s why my campaign to unseat Dianne Feinstein is crucial to our national cause — she is painfully out-of-touch with the American people, and today’s ruling is the most profound demonstration yet why California needs new energy and a fresh start in the U.S. Senate.
The Obamacare boondoggle is even worse that you’ve imagined. I can tell you from first-hand experience that there’s much more to the story than is being reported.
Democrats like Dianne Feinstein are literally stealing funding from programs that provide important services to the elderly and the disabled. First they lied about the cost of Obamacare, then stole a half-trillion dollars from Medicare to justify the initial price tag.
Now they are attempting to steal even more money, this time from core institutional programs at the Centers for Disease Control that support programs for the disabled to cover up the ballooning cost. That’s not just shady politics, it’s just plain wrong.
Further, our personal freedoms are being taken away at the hands of the proponents of this legislation. If the federal government can compel you to buy something for fear of financial penalty, what are the limits to its power? This has been made painfully clear to churches and religious institutions that are being coerced by the Obama administration to violate their religious liberty to comply with this law.
Finally, the Supreme Court ruling has brought Obamacare’s hidden taxes to the light of day and Dianne Feinstein proudly doubled down on her support of them. With a price tag double what the Democrats promised and growing exponentially every day, the “Affordable Care Act” may be the most ironic title for a major bill in the history of Congress.
Obamacare will continue to have a negative impact on job creation and hiring, and businesses will be forced to continue to grapple with all of the uncertainty and costs the law creates. The simple truth is that businesses across the nation are not hiring as a result of this administration’s mismanagement of health care reform.
But there’s an important distinction to make in the aftermath of yesterday’s ruling – the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is constitutional. It didn’t say that it was good legislation or sensible health care reform.
Only with new leadership in Washington can we expand access and lower costs through competition and choice while keeping in mind our responsibility to care for the truly vulnerable without raising taxes or increasing debt.
The most important thing I can do as your U.S. Senator is to repeal and replace Obamacare. The most important thing you can do to help get me there is to repeal and replace Dianne Feinstein.
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Elizabeth Emken, a businesswoman, non-profit executive and mother of a special needs child is the Republican nominee for the United States Senate. For the last decade she served as an advocate for developmentally disabled children, most recently as Vice President of Government Relations at Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest science and advocacy organization dedicated to autism research. For more information about Elizabeth, please visit www.Emken2012.com.
You can also find Elizabeth on twitter @Emken2012
What We Learned Today
Barack Hussein Kardashian has given us the largest tax increase in the history of the world, under the guise of Health Care. We now have the Obama Health Care Tax that can be fought at all levels of government. Strip its funding, strip its reach and strip its encroachment into our lives.
ObamaCare vs. the Post Office – Should Government Handle Either?
There was a great, short post over at The Weekly Standard today that is certainly worth looking at. So much was said in so little space.
“The problem is, America’s Founders wrote the following words (penned at Independence Hall) into our Constitution: “The Congress shall have Power…To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” Meanwhile, Obamacare may contradict the Founders’ vision of limited government and liberty more completely than any legislation ever passed in our nation’s history. The only good thing about Obamacare is the backlash against it, which has reignited national debate over the proper scope of government and has generated renewed interest in fiscal responsibility, limited government, and our founding principles. But it doesn’t help to advance those principles to suggest that Obamacare is like the Post Office.
It didn’t take 2,700 pages to found the Post Office. The Post Office doesn’t try to run what will soon be one-fifth of our economy. It doesn’t cost more than $2 trillion over ten years. It doesn’t compel Americans to buy health insurance. It doesn’t consolidate heretofore unthinkable levels of power in the hands of the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other unelected officials.”
As my readers know, I think the Post Office has become an unmanageable system for the federal government to handle. The Post Office has not turned a profit in many years. But, the larger points here are fantastic and it’s good to see validation for what I’ve been talking about here in previous weeks.
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