Repeal Obamacare 

January 7, 2011

U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC  20515

Dear Representative,

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) recently introduced H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.  On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support this legislation.  
 
Over the past two years, taxpayers have watched the national debt climb to a frightening $14 trillion as Congress and President Obama massively enlarged the size and scope of the federal government against the will of the people.  The passage of President Obama’s landmark healthcare legislation was perhaps the most fiscally dangerous piece of legislation and is most illustrative of Washington’s reckless and profligate behavior. 

The government takeover of healthcare will only exacerbate the fiscal distress from which the nation already suffers.  The $2.5 trillion package is packed with tax increases, insurance mandates, Medicare cuts, and unfunded Medicaid expansions.  Beginning in 2014 under the new law, individuals will either have to purchase health insurance or pay a financial penalty to the government.  The constitutionally questionable individual mandate is an unprecedented overreach of power and opens the door to boundless government intervention.

Seniors will see their Medicare benefits significantly reduced, resulting in limited choices and higher costs.  While Medicare will soon experience cuts, Medicaid will be expanded, despite the fact that the program is going broke and states are struggling to fund their share of the massive program, even before federal matching programs expire.  Imposing an unfunded mandate, which is also constitutionally questionable, will only make Medicaid’s problems worse. 

ObamaCare is crammed with sloppily written and onerous provisions, the impact of which is only now being fully realized.  For example, Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires every business, charity, and local and state government entity to file a Form 1099 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for each supplier or service provider to whom payments exceed $600 in a single year.  These requirements will burden an estimated 40 million businesses and other organizations, driving up their costs, forcing them to fill out more paperwork and tax forms, and causing them to devote more time and resources to dealing with bureaucratic red tape instead of focusing on job creation. 

Sincerely,

Thomas Schatz,
President