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Weekly
Republican Address
Speaker
Boehner Press Office...
Rep. Bill
Cassidy, M.D. on Jobs & Repealing ObamaCare
June 22,
2012
Delivering
the Weekly Republican Address, Rep. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) discusses
Republicans’ focus on jobs and fully repealing the president’s health
care law,
which is making our economy worse by driving up costs and making it
harder for
small businesses to hire new workers.
“Unless the Court throws out the entire law,”
Dr. Cassidy says, “we
should repeal what is left and implement common-sense, step-by-step
reforms
that protect Americans’ access to the care they need, from the doctor
they
choose, at the lowest cost.” Noting
that
most Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn all or part of
ObamaCare, Dr.
Cassidy emphasizes that “if that happens, it’s important to know that
Republicans will not repeat Democrats’ mistakes.
We won’t rush through a massive bill the
American people don’t support ... and we won’t take our focus off jobs
and the
economy.”
“Hello, I’m
Bill Cassidy, a doctor and United States Congressman from the State of
Louisiana.
“As you
know, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule on the constitutionality of
the
president’s health care law, a law which continues to hurt job creation
and
damage our economy. Not
only is
President Obama’s health care law not working – it makes things worse
by driving
up health care costs, making it harder for small businesses to hire
workers. The only
way to change this is
by repealing ObamaCare entirely.
“So, unless
the Court throws out the entire law, we should repeal what is left and
implement common-sense, step-by-step reforms that protect Americans’
access to
the care they need, from the doctor they choose, at the lowest cost.
“In this
tough economy, the top health care concern of families and small
businesses is
out-of-control costs. Health
care
coverage has become too expensive for too many people.
Two years ago, Washington Democrats pushed
through ObamaCare and its 2,700 pages with promises that it would fix
all
this. It did not
have popular support. It
did not have bipartisan support. But
its authors insisted that ObamaCare would
make health care more affordable, and of course Americans hoped that
would be
true.
“Instead,
ObamaCare has turned out to be the wrong medicine for out-of-control
health
care costs. The
law, as an example, is
going to cost nearly twice as much as we were told, people are already
paying
more for their health care than they were before, and because of health
insurance expenses, employers are canceling plans to expand their
businesses,
which is to say they will not be hiring new workers.
With costs going up and too much uncertainty,
this two trillion dollar takeover will result in more people being
pushed out
of the plan they enjoy today.
“The Obama
administration has tried all kinds of run-of-the-mill Washington
tactics to
distract from ObamaCare’s failures – issuing hundreds of waivers to
selected
businesses and unions and spending millions of taxpayer dollars on
public
relations campaigns.
“None of
this has worked, and now the vast majority of Americans want the
Supreme Court
to overturn all or part of ObamaCare.
If
that happens, it’s important to know that Republicans will not repeat
Democrats’ mistakes. We
will not rush
through a massive bill the American people don’t support or won’t even
have
time to read to figure out whether they do support it.
And we won’t take our focus off jobs and the
economy.
“I have
practiced medicine for nearly three decades primarily treating the
uninsured …
I still see patients almost weekly.
Good
health care starts in a doctor’s office, not a Washington backroom. It’s now clear, if it
wasn’t already, that
containing costs step-by-step – not expanding government in one fell
swoop – is
the right approach to health care reform.
Families should be able to make their own
health care choices, visit the
doctor of their choosing, and receive the health care they and their
physician
feel is best. That
means implementing
patient-centered solutions that lower costs and restore Americans’
freedoms
over their health care decisions.
“Again,
Republicans continue, as promised, to focus on helping small businesses
create
jobs. The most
recent jobs report pegged
unemployment at 8.2 percent – much higher than what White House
officials said
it would be by now with the ‘stimulus’ in effect.
ObamaCare, with its fees, tax hikes, and
costly mandates, makes this worse.
We
should seize this opportunity to protect jobs and work together on a
step-by-step reform that does what ObamaCare did not do, which is to
lower the
cost of health care for families and small businesses.
This is what Republicans hope to achieve, and
we hope to have your support.
“Thank you
for listening, and God bless the United States of America.”
The text,
audio and video of the Weekly Republican Address are available here.
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