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Contract with America Legislative Proposal #1: Repeal Obamacare
Legislative Proposal #1: Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
REPEAL
Obamacare is a disaster and the first task of my administration will be to repeal it.
The Obamacare law is unconstitutional, unaffordable, unworkable, and stunningly unfair. Its so-called "individual mandate" is blatantly unconstitutional and an unprecedented expansion of federal power.
In addition to the unconstitutional nature of individual and employer mandates, we are learning that they simply don’t work. If the federal government can coerce individuals—by threat of fines—to buy health insurance, there is no stopping the federal government from forcing Americans to buy any good or service.
Their intractable problem is this: once you have a mandate, the government has to specify exactly what coverage must be included in insurance for it to qualify. This introduces political considerations into determining these minimum standards, guaranteeing that nothing desired by the special interests will be left out.
And once the government mandates such expensive insurance, the government becomes responsible for its costs. It has to adopt expensive subsidies to help people pay for the expensive plans that it is requiring. The resulting cost to the taxpayer and strain on the budget leads the government to try and control healthcare costs by limiting healthcare services. The inevitable result is rationing by a nameless, faceless, unaccountable board of government bureaucrats.
The Obamacare law also creates one thousand, nine hundred and sixty eight separate grants of power to bureaucrats, most of them to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and her bureaucracy. It creates 159 new boards, agencies and other government entities to administer health decisions that should be up to the individual in consultation with their doctor. This unprecedented grant of discretionary power to unelected bureaucrats guarantees the rise in arbitrary and corrupted decision-making by the federal government.
For these reasons and more, I will fight for the repeal of Obamacare until it is repealed in its entirety.
We must either limit government or we will have government limit us.
REPLACE
As I carry the banner in fighting for the repeal of Obamacare, I will advocate for specific replacement health policies that will create a free market framework for healthcare, provide affordable, portable, and reliable healthcare coverage, and establish a healthcare safety net focused on those in need. This system will assure healthcare for all with no individual mandate or employer mandate of any kind.
This alternative to Obamacare begins with patient power and localism and the many common sense ideas developed over the past eight years at the Center for Health Transformation.
Over the next year, I look forward to discussing solutions for a pro-market replacement for Obamacare that puts top priority on empowering patients, focusing on the doctor-patient relationship, using the best new science to save lives and save money, lowering medical costs, and improving the quality of life for every single American.
We must take advantage of the unparalleled resources we already have: The United States has the best doctors, the best medical schools, and the best hospitals in the world. Our entrepreneurial spirit and drive for innovation has already produced medical advances once considered unimaginable.
Replacement legislation must build on these strengths. It must include provisions to make health insurance more affordable and portable by allowing Americans to purchase insurance across state lines. It must increase price competition in healthcare. It must improve patient safety and decrease overhead costs by digitizing all medical records, and it must introduce lawsuit reform to stop the frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of medicine.
Instead of an individual mandate penalty for not buying government approved health insurance, the federal tax code should be reformed to provide every American the choice of a generous tax credit or the ability to deduct the value of their health insurance up to a certain amount. The federal tax code should provide the same tax relief for the individual buying his own insurance as the employer providing health insurance to its employees.
This will lower costs for individuals and families, and will make it easier for people to obtain portable insurance they can take with them from job to job. If you don’t like your employer’s insurance, you get the same tax relief if you buy the insurance of your choice. Employers should also be allowed to buy individually-owned insurance for their employees, instead of non-portable, group insurance.
This approach provides a foundation of equal fairness for all, rather than the favoritism and rank discrimination of the Obamacare bureaucracies and the current system.
We should extend Health Savings Accounts throughout the healthcare system. Everyone on Medicare should be free to choose an HSA as part of their coverage if they want it. Everyone on Medicaid should be free to choose an HSA for part of his or her coverage. All workers should be free to use their health insurance tax credit or deduction to choose an HSA in place of their employer-provided health insurance if they desire.
These are a few examples of reforms that we can enact, once Obamacare is repealed, that will transform our current healthcare system into one centered on the individual, where patients and doctors have power, not Washington bureaucrats.
Comment
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Comment by J.Rogers on March 5, 2012 at 12:46pm
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With over 2,000 exemptions granted from Obamacare, who is left to pay the bill?
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Comment by William Nater on January 29, 2012 at 4:52pm -
I'm an independent , but I will be voting Republican, and I tell you, makes me wonder why the establishment is so vehemently anti Newt Gingrich. It seems that their concerns and fears is that a Gingrich victory will be an end to "Business as usual" in Washington. It will be back to governing and not financial self enrichment for all these hipocritical characters.
They are trying their best to steal it from Newt and give it to "Romoney" (wall street). I will vote Republican only if Newt gets the nomination, a "Romoney" win will mean the continuation of the same policies in place now.
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Comment by Brenda Aubuchon on January 29, 2012 at 9:26am -
ObamaCare will be another form of socialism therefore, we will all be paying the penalty to select our own medical insurance company. Of course, every year the penalty will continue to rise in price until you are forced into ObamaCare. All United States citizens should have the right to choose their own doctors and medical insurance. We all need to come together and get Obama out of the white house if not, we better be prepared for his socialism tactics which includes more people on food stamps, higher taxes and no choices over how we live our lives. ObamaCare will be like medicaid. It will take weeks for a doctors appointment and you will have to put your name on a waiting list for surgeries. A democracy is not what government does but what people do. We must repeal ObamaCare and vote for Newt Gingrich.
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Comment by herbert wayne ralston jr on January 26, 2012 at 5:18am -
I personally am not on any medications. But I know many who are and many who are struggling to either get coverage for the medications they need and struggling to pay for it. Obamacare is not only making it difficult, he is accually killing the people who cant afford it or obtain what the medications they need. The sooner it is repealed the sooner people can get their lives and health back.
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Comment by Roberta E Lewis on January 25, 2012 at 2:42pm -
I agree with you, Romney is a real "slickster", greased down hair and all! I have such a difficult time trying to feel what it would be like to have money in the Cayman Islands, private accounts all over the place. Oh, I forgot, it's okay because "I, my wife and I, we earned every penny of it and I am not going to apologize for being rich". You don't have to but it's awfully hard to reach all of the people who don't have any money and there are an awful lot of us out here!
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Comment by Robert Davis on January 25, 2012 at 8:15am
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Obama care has to be repealed, If not we are headed for disaster
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Comment by Benjamin Pritchard on January 24, 2012 at 10:59pm -
Obama care? Who ever coined that phrase needs to actually add it to Obama Money. Both plain and simple government control over our lives and industry. There is nothing in either that gives us more or better care and does not cover all the people as they keep trying to say it does. It should be be de-funded and repealed. We do not need a replacement in any form, especially an unwritten plan.
I hear all the hype about ity has computerized records in Obama plan, guess what that part was passed years ago under Bush but was never funded. Even the DOD had that 15 years ago, once agaion never funded./ Any military retire or vet can look at their own ID back side and see bar codes that were originally suppose to contain personal and medical data. Never was funded even though they spent millions to make and process the ID's.
Anyone foolish to think the government can craft a saving pl;an for health care is truly dreaming. These are same folks that all but kill;ed the social Security system, US Post Office and can't even come up with a balanced budget. Just look how they simplified the IRS rules 20 years ago.
Only replacement that would ever make any sense would be to cut anyone who ears over a million from all government benefits, Let them pay there own health care insurance .or retirement plans. In other words when reach 1 mil;lion income level all government benefits stop./
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Comment by Lynn Moore on January 21, 2012 at 8:59am
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The government should not be in the business of heath insurance. If the truth were told, I think we would find out that the cost of insurance is so high due to malpractice lawsuits and insuring day to day doctor visits. In the private market, individuals can buy catastrophic insurance for 10% of the cost of full coverage. There are many needless doctor visits by individuals with high insurance coverage.
I think the Federal government could offer, but not mandate the purchase of catastrophic insurance. The cost should be minimal or self-funding. I do not think people should go broke due to a major illness. I think the government should promote healthy life styles; possible allow a deduction for health club memberships. The Federal government should not mandate people purchase anything.
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Comment by DRTom on January 19, 2012 at 4:22pm
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We already have government health care. If you like medicaid, you'll love Obamacare.
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Comment by Roberta E Lewis on January 19, 2012 at 10:56am
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Newt, it is all yours - go and get it! You will destroy him in the debating because he cannot hold a candle to you! Let's get this country back to the UNDISPUTED #1 --- and don't apologize to anyone for anything! I love watching you in the debates because your knowledge is so great and you've done your homework and no one can question your answers because as any good attorney will tell you that you don't ask questions that you don't have the answer for! You not only have the questions, you have the answers!
Good Luck and I will support you!
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Comment by lupe Murillo on January 18, 2012 at 11:13pm
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My son has a medical condition which requires expensive medical treatments. He is currenlty being treated for cancer He is only 16. I worry for his since he may not be able to work ful time and be covered by medical insurance.. WE NEED OBAMA CARE TO MAKE SURE THAT INDIVIDUAL LIKE MY SON GET THE MEICAL CARE THEY NEED. I DO NOT HAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THE BANK TO PAY FOR HIS MEDICAL TREATMENT.
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Comment by Terri M. Braddock on January 10, 2012 at 10:04am
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Sorry for this lengthy comment...)READ MY FIRST COMMENT BELOW THEN COME BACK TO THIS). VOTERS HAVE GOT TO UNDERSTAND...This is not a time to place into office the person who they may "like the best", "have the best moral values", etc!!! Save that for another day...I do know that the American people are not so necessarily "plastic" in that way...but then again for MANY...they don't "dig" and end up making a mockery out of a the race. Newt may not be the nicest, he may have baggage (and who doesn't)...etc...But HE is what our Country needs...HERE AND NOW. Prove it Newt!
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This is what I want to get across today...at this point in time. Speaker Gingrich, as all of us who are WITH him are aware of, is the most dynamic force out of the GOP candidates running for the Office of The President of the United States! It's almost as if he has that third eye vision which can zero in on all areas of distortion and caous and sort each one out individually; then with his radiant brilliance and mind popping ideas he sets out to create the reform that is needed in America today...NOW. The delemna that I see is to create the essence of importance to the American People that THIS IS WHAT WE NEED AND NEWT IS THE ONE TO FULFILL THE REFORM NEEDS OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM SO THAT WE CAN TURN THE TIDE NOT ONLY FOR AMERICA BUT FOR THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD, FOR WHAT WE DO AS A NATION DOES GREATLY IMPACT THE WORLD. His campaign needs to emphasize to the voters a showing of just how Speaker Gingrich, by example of his past record, know how too march in and produce the changes that are needed.
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Comment by Chris Lincoln on January 8, 2012 at 2:16pm
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The medical industry needs to be free of insane lawsuits
Government involvement period !!!! Government only drives up costs
And insurance companies ! Insurance is a foorm of gambling.
Think about it , politicians take money from lobbyist / insurance companys they are all lawyers and rich while we and doctors all go down ! Welcome to America And no politican can or wants to change it
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Comment by Steve Sunderlin on January 3, 2012 at 8:32am
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When you say replace it, it really comes across as the federal government will still manage the process vice the free market. Additionally, The tax code is too complicated as it is and here is another tax manipulation (or so it seems) using the tax code to influence individual or corporate behavior. For me, adding tax credits or tax gimmicks is not something I want to see. Show me how this will actually roll back the complications on the tax code. We are taxed enough already and the code is so complicated to follow for the individual we spend way too much time trying to figure it out or we have to hire part of an entire industry (HR Block, Jackson Hewitt, etc) to deal with our taxes. That's crazy.
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Comment by Karyl for America on December 27, 2011 at 6:18pm
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@ Cindy Somerford...No, I am not for Obamacare, nor am I for government overseeing all medical care or insurance coverage. But I'm also nearing the age where I'll be forced to choose between food and medical care...or I can just get sick, die and get off the rolls. This system, in particular, has been broken for a long time, it's just gotten to the point where we Baby Boomers are realizing that what we worked hard for, thought we'd been paying into for so long, thinking we'd have some meager security in...just like our parents...has been mismanaged and spent into bancruptcy.
Pre-existing conditions.....even if you've taken great care of yourself, done everything right, paid your medical care costs and done something like gotten a knee replacement so that you can continue to work and be a tax paying American you're screwed.....new knee? Pre-existing condition and now you can't get insurance. What? Someone HAS to stand up to this.
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Comment by Michael James Gallagher Jr on December 27, 2011 at 5:08pm -
Right, I am not for Obamacare and so far as I can tell neither is Karyl. There are good provisions in it. Gingrich himself has said so. But I feel your pain Cindy, everbody touted the pre existing condition mandate as a great leap forward in healthcare but it isnt as good as it seems.
Opening up the insurance markets leting them compete across state lines, things like this will cause the prices to drop dramatically.
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Comment by Cindy Somerford on December 27, 2011 at 12:58pm
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Also, people that are younger and with little children have no clue what's coming when they reach age 50 and up. If you get laid off from your job...then what, when Cobra expires. Got to think ahead. If government controls the insurance and medical industry...they appear to control it all.
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Comment by Cindy Somerford on December 27, 2011 at 12:56pm
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Sure hope you are not for Obamacare. Do you realize requesting everyone to have insurance at my age is impossible. Will you let us die? With pre-existing, the monthly premium is $1,200 with a $1,000 deductible. If the premium is $320 per month, then the deductible is $7,500. If I can't afford $1,200 per month while making only (net) $1,900 per month, how could I possibly pay a $7,500 deductible?
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Comment by Michael James Gallagher Jr on December 26, 2011 at 12:23pm
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@Karyl for America
I cannot speak for Newt. But I do know that the specific mandate that allows familys to insure their children through 26 is widley supported by both the Establishment and Tea Party Republicans.
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