Issue Position: Healthcare and Obamacare

Issue Position

We need a free market in health care.

There is perhaps no single government program that poses a greater threat to our life, liberty and prosperity than the "Affordable Care Act," generally referred to as "ObamaCare." The more the American people learn about ObamaCare, the less they like it--and with good reason. According to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, ObamaCare is expected to cost our economy upwards of 800,000 jobs. A recent survey of business executives revealed that 71 percent said that ObamaCare is making it harder to hire workers. Every day brings new stories about companies laying off workers or cutting back hours. ObamaCare is the very last thing our struggling economy needs.

ObamaCare must first be defunded, then repealed and sent as far as the East is from the West. No one would argue that our health care system would not benefit from the right type of reform, but ObamaCare's IRS-run healthcare scheme is a dream come true only for lawyers and government bureaucrats, and a nightmare for our citizens. Nothing should come between a patient and their doctor, especially not the government.

The path to readily available, affordable and quality health care should always begin and end with free market solutions. The federal role in health care policy is--and should be--limited, but the federal government has a legitimate role to play in breaking down barriers and expanding flexibility and portability. A national market for goods and services was one of the brilliant ideas written into our Constitution, and there is no reason we should not have a national free market for health care insurance, but we don't. Americans should not be bound, either by state lines or to employers, when making critical health care decisions for themselves and their families.

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