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FACT CHECK:Dem Claims on ObamaCare Repeal Dont Ring TruePosted
by Kevin Smith on January 17, 2011Americans want a step-by-step,
common-sense approach to health care reform thatlowers costs, not
the job-crushing, government takeover of health care that was
rammedthrough Congress last year. And this week, House Republicans
will keep their pledge topass legislation to repeal the law and
work on common-sense policies that actually lowercosts for families
and small businesses, expand access to affordable care, and
protectAmerican jobs. But that hasnt stopped Democrats from making
claims about the GOPrepeal effort that dont pass the straight-face
test. Here are just a few examples:
Dem Claim: On January 6, 2011, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA)released a statement implying that ObamaCare creates jobs by
panning the GOPrepeal effort. The statement was entitled: GOP Bill
To Repeal Health Reform IsA Job-Killer."FACT: By piling more debt
onto the backs of our kids and grandkids, andimposing a costly maze
of taxes, penalties, and mandates on job creators,
ObamaCare will lead to fewer jobs. TheNew York Times reported
this weekendthat [e]conomists tend to agree that the law could lead
some employers to hirefewer low-wage workers. In an op-ed for USA
Today, the president of theNational Center for Policy Analysis
notes that as firms now consider droppinghealth insurance for their
employees, The next step will be to drop their jobs.Bottom line:
analysis by the Heritage Foundation concludes that "The bestway to
prevent further erosion of the economy is to repeal the new
law.
Dem Claim: GOP repeal bill would leave Americans with
pre-existing conditionsvulnerable.FACT: In the last Congress,
Republicans offered a better, market-based solutionto guarantee
access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing
conditions
all without job-crushing government mandates. The proposal fully
funded andreformed high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to
guarantee that allAmericans, regardless of pre-existing conditions
or past illnesses, have access toaffordable care lowering costs for
all Americans without piling more debt ontoour kids and grandkids.
(H.R. 4038, Title I, Introduced 11/6/09; Summaryavailable here.)
House Republicans will be looking at similar reforms this year.
Dem Claim: GOP repeal bill would take away insurance coverage
for childrenthrough age 25 who stay on their parents policy.FACT:
The plan offered by Republicans included the same proposal,
allowingyoung adults through age 25 to remain on their parents
policies. Republicans willcontinue to support this reform. (H.R.
4038, Title II, Introduced 11/6/09;
Summary available here.) Dem Claim: GOP repeal bill will leave
seniors vulnerable who are counting on
the donut hole to be closed.FACT: The Democrats fix was a
backroom deal with PhRMA that will raiseprescription drug costs and
cost taxpayers tens of billions. This backroom dealmay have helped
enrich PhRMAs bottom line, but the Congressional BudgetOffice (CBO)
has confirmed that the new health care law will increase
premiums
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for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D by as much as
nine percent (p.
78) and cost taxpayers $42.6 billion (p. 38). Dem Claim:
ObamaCare does not promote taxpayer funding of abortion, and
legislation is not needed to keep abortions from being funded by
taxpayer dollarsunder ObamaCare.
FACT: In a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune editorial
board, facingquestions about his commitment to the pro-abortion
cause, former White Housechief of staff Rahm Emanuel emphasized
that the Executive Order on abortionsigned by President Obama in
March 2010 ostensibly to eliminate the need forthe pro-life Stupak
Amendment to be attached to ObamaCare does not carry theforce of
law, and as such, has the seal of approval of former House
SpeakerNancy Pelosi (D-CA) and others who oppose a ban on taxpayer
funding ofabortion (Chicago Tribune, 1/14/11). Emanuel also seemed
to acknowledge thatthe EO was a maneuver by the Obama
Administration to circumvent a bipartisanmajority in the House and
the will of the American people which supported
the pro-life Stupak amendment.
House Republicans offered the only health care plan in the last
Congress that actuallyLOWERED premiums the American peoples number
one priority for health carereform. This year, led by the Ways
& Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI),Energy &
Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Education &
theWorkforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republicans will
be listening to theAmerican people and putting together
common-sense reforms that lower health carecosts, expand access to
affordable care, and protect American jobs. Thats the promise
Republicans made in the Pledge to America, and its a pledge they
intend to keep.
