Fed Up!, by Rick Perry: on Health Care

Barack Obama: OpEd: Obama's public responsibility for health is socialism

At its core, Obamacare represents the closest this country has ever come to outright socialism. Those on the Left note that they are unhappy this bill did not go even further--to what they innocuously call a single-payer system, in which government takes over the entire field of medicine. Instead of keeping the public option in the bill (thus stirring up the ire of millions of Americans), Democrats instead offered a public plan that competes with private insurance--only the government sets the rules of the competition. The result will be the bankrupting of private plans, and then a public option to rescue health care from the abyss and the supposedly greedy profiteers of private insurance. The liberals are not stupid enough about health care--they are insidious.

Obamacare mandates that the American people must go out and buy government-approved health insurance in the private market. I defy anyone to show me the clause in the Constitution that gives Washington the authority to do this.

Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p. 79 Nov 15, 2010

Jim DeMint: ObamaCare: a byzantine network of 159 federal programs

Obamacare raises our taxes, empowers the IRS to enforce the plan's provisions, funds abortion, and widely expands the administrative state and federal deficit spending. Sen. DeMint (R-SC) called Obamacare "a bureaucratic nightmare; a byzantine network of 159 new federal programs and bureaucracies to make decisions that should be between just the patient and their doctor." He is right.

The problem with Obamacare is that federal bureaucrats will be empowered to ration care and make important decisions about our health--even in matters of life and death. Two new bureaucracies have been established--the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payment Advisory Board--which will soon have the final word on what constitutes "good" medicine. The importance of power of this board is hardly being hidden by the Obama administration.

The net result of this will be government bureaucrats--not your doctor--deciding what the right treatment is for you.

Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p. 80 Nov 15, 2010

Rick Perry: Total repeal and dismantling of ObamaCare

No issue is more critical for the defense of freedom and the American way of life than the preservation of our free-market health care system and the total repeal and dismantling of so-called Obamacare. It is an example of everything that is wrong with the modern administrative state.

Our ability as Americans to have access to the best health care in the world--and our right to make our own personal health care decisions--literally hangs in the balance as this administration and Democrats on the Hill consolidate power and insert the long tentacles of Washington into every hospital and doctor's office in America. Because the premise of Obamacare is that our health is not our responsibility but the public's.

At its core, Obamacare represents the closest this country has ever come to outright socialism.

Obamacare mandates that Americans must go out and buy government-approved health insurance. I defy anyone to show me the clause in the Constitution that gives Washington the authority to do this

Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p. 78-79 Nov 15, 2010

Rick Perry: The future of America depends on repealing ObamaCare

The so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or what we often refer to as Obamacare, simply must be repealed. Period. If we are unwilling to repeal a 2,000-plus-page bill that its sponsors admitted to not having read, that will cost trillions of dollars, that is opposed by a majority of the nation, that unconstitutionally requires private citizens to buy private health insurance, and that spits in the face of any principles of limited government and federalism --then we should just give up. The future of American depends on reversing this law.

Now, some Republicans seem to be hung up on the notion that we must be "for" something and must indicate so by saying that we will "repeal and replace" the legislation. That is such inside-the-Beltway nonsense and only confuses the issues for voters.

Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p.175 Nov 15, 2010

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