Ralph E WallSrAdmin started the discussion "LETTER FROM CONG. GRIFFITH" in the group Commonwealth of Virginia on Tea Party Command Center
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Thank you for contacting me regarding ObamaCare. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
As you may know, I supported legislation (H.R. 45) that would fully repeal Obamacare on May 16, 2013. Introduced by Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN), H.R. 45 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 229 – 195.
However you feel about the philosophy of Obamacare, what has become increasingly clear is that it was not built carefully enough to work. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is infamous for having said that Congress had 'to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it.'
Well, they passed it. We now know what's in it, and the American people don't like it. So far, what the President promised hasn't come true.
President Obama promised in a speech before Congress that his health care proposal would not add to the national deficit, but the Government Accountability Office estimated that it will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion.
The Administration promised that premium rates would go down, but the Energy and Commerce Committee recently released a report revealing that consumers' premiums could spike as high as 400 percent. In Virginia, the small group market is projected to increase by 31 percent.
CLASS, the law's long-term care program, was determined to be financially unsustainable and has been suspended.
Furthermore, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is now soliciting funds for the law's implementation from the very same companies and groups that her agency is responsible for overseeing, because they underestimated the cost of implementation.
Even with a stack of regulations taller than I am, the Administration cannot tell the American people what will happen with their health insurance in January when Obamacare is fully implemented. Why? Because the Administration still has more decisions to make, and more regulations to promulgate.
Senator Max Baucus, one of the law's main architects, recently described Obamacare as 'a huge train wreck coming down.'
This bill will help a few people, but will hurt many. Instead of insisting that we go forward with a faulty plan that will collapse like a house of cards, we should instead focus on how we help the few people who need it without harming the many.
Please know that I will continue advocating for commonsense policies until America finally achieves real health care reform.
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