ALG Letter to House Members against "ObamaCare"

To the Members of House of Representatives:

Sunday’s expected vote on the government takeover of our nation’s health care system promises to be the most important vote of your political career. As you are already well aware, the American people do not support this takeover. In Congressional District after Congressional District, the American people express strong majority opposition to the plan.

The only thing that remains is for you to do the right thing. ObamaCare must be defeated.

Nothing has changed in this bill. President Barack Obama’s plan – despite its numerous incarnations – will still ration care away from seniors, drive Americans off of their private health options and onto a government-run system, reduce quality, increase premiums, and saddle taxpayers with runaway costs, more spending, confiscatory taxes, and a debt that can never be paid.

That, of course, has not prevented Mr. Obama from intentionally misrepresenting the increased cost of insurance premiums as reported by the Congressional Budget Office at his fraudulent ‘bipartisan’ health takeover summit.

The relevant Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report stated, “CBO and JCT estimate that the average premium per person covered (including dependents) for new nongroup policies would be about 10 percent to 13 percent higher in 2016 than the average premium for nongroup coverage in that same year under current law… Average premiums per policy in the nongroup market in 2016 would be roughly $5,800 for single policies and $15,200 for family policies under the proposal, compared with roughly $5,500 for single policies and $13,100 for family policies under current law.”

The CBO also reported, “About half of those enrollees would receive government subsidies that would reduce their costs well below the premiums that would be charged for such policies under current law,” which formed the basis of Mr. Obama’s claim, responding to Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) at the “bipartisan” health care summit, stating, “Lamar, when you mentioned earlier that you said premiums go up, that's just not the case, according to the Congressional Budget Office.”
Mr. Obama is misleading the American people. This is not a case where Mr. Obama and Senator Alexander were “both right.” Mr. Obama was wrong.

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