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| OPINION: The Health Care Decision |
| Ryan Call | 7/2/12 |
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Last week, a deeply divided and complicated Supreme Court decision sets the stakes for the November election. Now, the only way to save the country from ObamaCare’s federal government takeover of health care is to appeal this decision to the people themselves - by electing a new President and a Republican Congress.
President Obama’s signature legislation is expected to cost taxpayers over $1 trillion over the next decade, and under his plan health care costs will continue to skyrocket and up to 20 million Americans could lose their employer-based coverage.
Meanwhile, a panel of unelected bureaucrats now has the unprecedented authority to come between patients and their doctors. ObamaCare is still bad law, it is still bad for business and the economy, and it is still bad for the American people.
 We need market-based solutions and health care reforms that give patients more choice, not less. The answer to rising health care costs is not, and will never be, unprecedented mandates and penalizing taxes imposed on the people by the federal government.
I recently reflected on Benjamin Franklin’s response to a question as he left Independence Hall at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. “Well, Doctor, what have we got... a Republic or a Monarchy?” the woman asked.
“A Republic, if you can keep it,” was Franklin’s reply.
In November, we face the question that every generation of Americans is called upon to confront – the question of whether we can keep intact for future generations the republican system of federalism and limited government given to us by our Founding Fathers. Ultimately, the answer to that same question posed to Franklin so many years ago is still up to the American people.
On Election Day, the only way left to Colorado citizens to respond to this decision and to repeal ObamaCare is to elect a President and representatives to the U.S. Congress who respect the role of state and local governments, pledge to uphold the Constitutional principles of federalism and limited government, understand the economy and free enterprise, and can provide the leadership to enact prudent, bipartisan reforms that we so desperately need to address the complicated problems facing America. |
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