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Congressman Boehner to President
Obama: 41 Percent Increase in Ohio Health Premiums Shows Your Law Isn’t
“Working Fine”
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Congressman John
Boehner (R-West Chester) today seized on an announcement that health
insurance
premiums in Ohio will increase by an average of 41 percent over last
year as a
result of disruptions in the state’s competitive insurance market
caused by
President Obama’s health care law, challenging President Obama’s
assertion that
the law is “working fine.” Yesterday,
Boehner announced the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a series
of votes
this fall aimed at ending the president’s health care law through a
series of
targeted legislative votes building on two bipartisan votes in the
House this
month to delay the law’s employer and individual mandates.
“The
announcement today in Ohio by
Lt. Governor Taylor is irrefutable evidence that the president’s health
care
law is not ‘working fine.’ To
the
contrary, it is hurting our economy, driving up the cost of health care
and
making it harder for small businesses to hire workers,” Boehner said. “It’s time to repeal the
law and take a
step-by-step approach to health care reform that begins with lowering
costs and
protecting jobs.”
“President
Obama and congressional
Democrats rammed this law through Congress three years ago. Since then they’ve been
relying on a shaky
coalition of Democrats to keep this unworkable law in place. But in recent weeks, we’ve
seen what could be
the beginning of the end for the coalition and the law,” Boehner noted.
“Earlier this month, nearly two dozen of our Democratic colleagues
broke with
the president and joined Republicans in voting to delay the individual
mandate
at the heart of the president’s law.
We
will continue to have votes in the House that chip away at the
legislative
coalition the president and his allies have relied upon to keep this
train
wreck of a law on the books. While
the
president would like to pretend such votes are ‘meaningless,’ the
reality is
that he has already signed seven such bills into law.”
In
the coming weeks and months,
Boehner said, the House plans to vote on:
•
A bill by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
to get the IRS out of the president’s health care law;
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A bill to protect taxpayers by
requiring verification for Obamacare subsidies;
•
Legislation to stop IPAB, the
Obama administration's health care rationing board, which even former
DNC
chairman Howard Dean says is a major problem;
•
Legislation to get rid of the
slush funds the president is using to implement the law;
•
Other targeted bills aimed at
fracturing the coalition of support that President Obama has used to
keep the
health care law in place.
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