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Luetkemeyer Statement on First Anniversary of Disastrous Health-Care Law
Washington, DC,
March 22, 2011
All American families deserve access to high-quality, affordable health coverage, but Obamacare fails to do any of this. It raises premiums, suffocates economic growth that costs jobs, makes damaging cuts to Medicare while also paving the way for federally funded abortions, Luetkemeyer said. "When I voted against this bill a year ago, I vowed to continue seeking ways to defund this legislation, and I have not wavered from that commitment. The job-killing health-care law is simply the wrong prescription for dealing with the health-care challenges facing our country, and 71 percent of Missourians made it clear they felt the same way when they went to the polls in August 2010."
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) issued the following statement on tomorrow’s anniversary of the signing of the disastrous Obamacare legislation. “All American families deserve access to high-quality, affordable health coverage, but Obamacare fails to do any of this. It raises premiums, suffocates economic growth that costs jobs, makes damaging cuts to Medicare while also paving the way for federally funded abortions,” Luetkemeyer said. “When I voted against this bill a year ago, I vowed to continue seeking ways to defund this legislation, and I have not wavered from that commitment. The job-killing health-care law is simply the wrong prescription for dealing with the health-care challenges facing our country, and 71 percent of Missourians made it clear they felt the same way when they went to the polls in August 2010.” Since the passage of the legislation, Luetkemeyer has worked with House colleagues seeking ways to defund and ultimately reject the job-killing health-care law, including: On January 19, 2011, the House passed, H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act: One of the House’s first official actions was to repeal the health-care law in its entirety and instruct the committees of jurisdiction to begin work on finding commonsense patient-centered replacement legislation. On February 19, 2011, the Housed passed H.R. 1, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011: The House passed several substantial bipartisan amendments to H.R. 1 that would severely handicap implementation of the job-killing health-care law:
On March 3, 2011, the House passed H.R. 4, the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011, which would repeal the job-killing 1099 reporting requirement that was added in the health-care law and has a detrimental impact on small businesses. ### |