Those of us in Virginia still coping without power after the storm know the feeling all too well. Like other Americans, we've been experiencing Obamacare, which steals power from patients and physicians and redirects it to the federal government.
Partisans pushed the health care law
through Congress without considering the repercussions of increasing taxes
during an economic crisis; without calculating the crippling cost of heaping
sweeping mandates, draconian fines and mountains of regulations onto
businesses; and without caring for the patients who would lose health care
access after Medicare cuts left even more physicians unable to treat poor
patients.
Perhaps no single feature of Obamacare better illustrates this
bull-headed approach than the administration's nationwide mandate forcing
virtually all employer insurance plans to include even the most controversial
contraceptives and sterilization surgeries. The coercive rule tramples First
Amendment rights by forcing many faith-based conscientious objectors to
subsidize products considered morally repugnant. It also tramples free
enterprise principles, by decreeing that insurers somehow must not only offer the
products and services--including $6,000 sterilization surgeries--for free,
while forbidding them to recoup their losses through premium adjustments.
It's time for Congress and the President to stop trying to take
over the world and replace this overreaching law with sensible, measured and
bipartisan health care reforms. Provide a sustainable safety net for the poor,
restore and strengthen conscience protections, cut coverage costs by increasing
competition across state lines, reform malpractice lawsuit excesses, cut fraud
and reduce bureaucracy.
Wrench power away from government bureaucrats and give
it back to the people.
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