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Obamacare - Two years later
Mar 21 2012
During the debate over Obamacare, Democrats and the president claimed that the law would lower health care costs, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, protect Medicare, and allow Americans to keep their health care plans. Two years later, it's clear that not one of those promises will be kept. Instead, the health care law will drive up families' premiums by more than $2,000, force cash-strapped state governments to shoulder more than $100 billion in new Medicaid costs, take more than half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and encourage employers to drop health care coverage for up to 35 million Americans. And far from creating jobs, the health care law will actually result in 800,000 fewer jobs over the next decade. It's time to repeal Obamacare and replace it with commonsense, step-by-step reforms that will actually lower costs.
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Senator Roberts Slams Health Care Law on the Senate floor
Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and his GOP colleagues discuss their opposition to the health care reform law on the second anniversary of it being signed into law. The law is filled with overly burdensome regulations and costly provisions, cuts Medicare, raises billions in new taxes and increases premiums for families by $2,100 a year. "There's no such thing as free health care. Someone has to pay," said Sen. Roberts.
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Health Care Isn’t Free - Taxpayers Pay for It
In advance of the two year anniversary of the new health care law, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today said health care costs have gone up for patients and the taxpayer and called on his colleagues to repeal and replace the new health care law Health Care Isn’t Free - Taxpayers Pay for It.pdf (17.8 KBs) -
Recent Letter to Kansas Editors
Letter to the Editor running in papers statewide. Letter-to-the-editor.pdf (22.4 KBs)