Glen Urquhart for Congress on the Big Health Care Vote
Aug 5th, 2010 by David Anderson
For Immediate Release
Americans are making their voices heard in favor of repeal of Obama Care (The Affordable Health Care Act). Yesterday, the people of Missouri voted almost 3 to 1 to opt out of the individual mandate in Obama Care. Missouri will be joining the state of Virginia which passed a similar measure in their General Assembly.
Delawareans will have their first opportunity in September to cast their vote in favor of a repeal of Obama Care. In the house race to replace Congressman Castle, only Glen Urquhart has pledged to defund and work for repeal and replacement of this legislation which is unsustainable fiscally and an unprecedented grab of power over the individual by the federal government.
Former Reagan appointee and businessman, Glen Urquhart believes a different approach needs to be taken. “I believe making the world’s best overall medical system worse, is not the answer, said Urquhart. “More competition is the answer. More government in the form of Obama Care is the problem on steroids. Any plan that starts with 16,000 new IRS employees isn’t about health; it’s about taxes and power. Those agents are likely to cause fear-induced heart attacks, not help people’s health. Obama Care is massively too complicated, full of disingenuously planned ‘unintended consequences,’” he concluded.
I invite all Delaware Republicans to join me on September 14th in sending a powerful message to the Washington establishment that we have had enough. The only reason Missouri beat us to it is that they have an earlier primary, but our voices will soon be heard, proclaimed Urquhart.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) has filed suit on the grounds that the ‘commerce clause’ in no way empowers Congress to mandate the purchase of a private product (insurance). He is right, and the Commonwealth of Virginia will prevail. This will, essentially, end Obamacare.
In today’s Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll, a whopping 15% of those polled support Obamacare. This is an incredible number, but has been verified in the Missouri referendum.
Good luck with Obamacare in November, Socialist-Democrats!
This will, essentially, end Obamacare.
Actually, it will not.
Remember the insurance companies demanded the individual mandate in exchange for other provisions like banning rescission and lifetime caps, pre-existing conditions, etc.
In the unlikely event the individual mandate is struck down, all those other provisions will remain in effect. The insurance companies will lobby to repeal them, but will not be likely to prevail.
Killing the individual mandate will simply make it impossible for insurance companies to offer private insurance at their usual obscene margins. So they will begin pulling their products from the market.
With the end of private health insurance, the demand for public health care will then become undeniable.
No, it is all over minus a year. This time next year we will debating the replacement.
In the unlikely event the individual mandate is struck down, all those other provisions will remain in effect
Wrong, on both counts. There’s no way the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that the ‘commerce clause’ sanctifies a congressional mandate to buy from a private entity. No way.
Secondly, without the threat of penalty, the law will have no force. When the Supreme Court rules that the government can’t compel the purchasing of insurance, the government, obviously, can’t penalize anyone for not doing so. The house of cards will fall.
Third, as the lawsuit progresses through the appeals process, when the Republicans gain control of the House in January, they will merely not fund any component of Obamacare; “All revenue bills shall originate in the House of Representitives…” That’s from the Constitution, in case you didn’t know it.
Finally, it has become apparent that the American people simply don’t want socialized medicine; see Missouri and the latest Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll (15% support, nationwide). With 24 Socialist-Democrat senators facing re-election in ’12, don’t expect much enthusiasm for fighting the will of the American people- their self-preservation will trump their feigned ‘compassion.’ You can take that to the bank.
If the individual mandate is struck down by the Supreme Court, the bans on rescission, lifetime caps, and pre-existing provisions are not going to be affected by the ruling. And enforcement of those provisions will not be affected by defunding any of the subsidies provided in the HCR bill.
Insurance companies will have to abide by those provisions, or stop offering their product.
Please, please, Republicans, vote on a bill to allow the insurance companies to reinstate rescission, pre-existing, lifetime caps, and to kick all those 26 year olds off their parents’ policy.
Unfortunately Alpha might be right about the individual mandate surviving. But if he is it will only be because a judge put his individual politics ahead of the Constitution.
As we saw in San Francisco yesterday, there are plenty of judges who think the Constitution can be set aside if it comes in conflict with liberal-progressive-socialist goals.
Alpha is very wrong about the nature of the individual mandate. While a tiny handful of those in the industry within Obama’s trusted circle appeared to support it, the overwhelming majority of insurers are against the individual mandate.
Alpha contradicts himself when he says “Killing the individual mandate will simply make it impossible for insurance companies to offer private insurance at their usual obscene margins.” What ever you think of the “margin,” they are already selling at whatever price the market will bear without an individual mandate.
The law as designed is intended to force private insurers to withdraw their products from the market anyway. My health care plan for example, like most of yours, is frozen in place by the new law. If my employer or policy issuer makes any changes to premiums, benefits or co-pays, the plan loses its grandfathered status and if it does not meet the obscene requirements of Obama Care, I and my employer must give it up and go to a plan in the government sanctioned exchange.
This is the so called “back door” to universal government coverage. Once grandfathered policies are gone, and they all will disappear because they can’t produce profit if their ability to recover costs is frozen in place. The process will be accelerated by forcing insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. That’s like forcing an insurance company to sell you a home owners policy after the house has burned down.
By the time we reach the end of the decade, most private care will have been destroyed and replaced by a growing cancer of a public health care plan. Socialists will be able to create one by playing on the fear they are carefully putting in place over the coming scarcity of private insurance.
The only purpose of an individual mandate is to create a coercive and punitive force in place to force compliance with what the socialists think is best.
If the individual mandate is struck down by the Supreme Court, the bans on rescission, lifetime caps…
That’s what you think. Obamacare is on life support, and the Supreme Court will pull the plug.