CONSERVATIVES REMIND CONGRESS – REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW

June 20, 2018
Washington, DC

For nearly a decade, Democrats in Congress have successfully blocked every effort by Republicans to keep the promise they made to voters of fully repealing Obamacare. Meanwhile, the law continues to hurt Americans in countless ways across the country.

  • Average premiums for individual health insurance have risen to $476 dollars a month, reflecting a 105 percent increase.[i]
  • The average deductible for Silver level plans has increased to nearly $8,000 for families.[ii]
  • The number of small firms offering health benefits to their workers has dropped 24 percent between 2012 and 2016.[iii]
  • Half of U.S. counties now have a “choice” of only one insurer on their exchanges.[iv]
  • The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that 1,036 of the tax-subsidized abortion plans sold in 2014 included abortion on demand.[v]

Obamacare has fundamentally failed to live up to its promises: affordable, accessible coverage for all. Americans now pay more for policies that cover less. Networks are narrower, deductibles are higher and drug costs prohibitive.[vi] [vii] Worse, many who once could afford coverage no longer can.[viii]

Obamacare is a policy failure, as well as a moral one, and must be repealed. Congressional Republicans should not wait to act, as these policies continue to harm families across the country. We urge Congress to act with haste to keep their promise and repeal Obamacare.


The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan 


The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman
Constitutional Congress, Inc.


Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.


Haley E. Martin
President
The Martin Foundation


Quin Hillyer 
Veteran Conservative Columnist 


C. Preston Noell III 
President 
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.  


Jessie Jane Duff
Sr. Fellow London Center for
Policy Research, Gunnery
Sergeant USMC (Ret)
London Center for Policy Research 


Thomas E. McClusky
President
March for Life Action 


William L. Walton
Chairman
CNP Action, Inc.


Rebecca Hagelin
Secretary
Council for National Policy


Lee A. Beaman
CEO
Beaman Automotive Group


Floyd Brown
Chairman
Western Center for Journalism 


James L. Martin
Founder & Chairman
60 Plus Association 


Gary Marx 
President
Madison Strategies 


William W. Pascoe, III
Board Member
Tea Party Patriots Action  


Marjorie Dannenfelser  
President
Susan B. Anthony List  


The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio


Willes K. Lee
President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies


Jason S. Jones  
President 
Movie to Movement 


Diana Banister
President and Partner  
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs  


Thomas Fitton
President
Judicial Watch, Inc.


Allen Hebert 
Chairman 
American – Chinese
Fellowship of Houston 


Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum


The Honorable Michael R. Long
State Chairman
NYS
Conservative Party 


Dr. Richard Rounsavelle 
Trustee 
Media Research Center 


Barry J. Meguiar 
President
Revival Outside the Walls /
Ignite America  


Rachel Bovard
Former Policy Director
Senate Steering Committee


Wesley Denton 
Former
Communications Director 

Senator Jim DeMint (SC) 


Tim Chapman 
Executive Director
Heritage Action for America  


Joe R. Calvert 
President
Rabon and Calvert Interests, Inc. 


Roxanne Phillips
Member, Executive Committee
Council for National Policy 


Richard A. Viguerie 
Chairman  
Conservative HQ.com  


Richard Wright
CEO 
AAndrews Consulting


Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund  


Dan Weber
Founder and President
Association of Mature American Citizens  


Dr. Carol M. Swain  
Author, Speaker, former  
Professor, and Entrepreneur
Carol Swain Enterprises, LLC 


Dr. Virginia Armstrong   
National Chairman,
Eagle Forum’s Court Watch   

National Eagle Forum


Michelle Easton   
President
Clare Boothe Luce Center for
Conservative Women 


Eslie Sykes  
Managing Director
Aslan Ventures   


The Honorable Diana Denman  
President 
Regan Legacy Forum    


Melvin Adams  
Former President 
Renewanation   


Dr. Everett Piper  
President  
Oklahoma Wesleyan University   


Carolee Adams  
President 
Eagle Forum of New Jersey   


Robert Alt   
President & CEO  
The Buckeye Institute   


Mario H. Lopez
President 
Hispanic Leadership Fund  


Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.  
Washington Bureau Chief  
Infowars.com  


The Honorable Penny Pullen  
President 
Life Advocacy Resource Project  


Steve Berger
Pastor  
Grace Chapel  


Mrs. Roy Moore  
President 
Foundation for Moral Law   


Craig Shirley
Visiting Reagan Scholar  
Eureka College   


Judson Phillips
Founder  
Tea Party Nation   


L. Brent Bozell, lll 
Founder and President 
Media Research Center   


Paul Liberman  
Executive Director  
Alliance for Israel Advocacy  


Kielle Horton  
VP


Dr. Ron Seeley, MD

The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
Former
White House Advisor,

President Ronald Reagan 


The Honorable Colin A. Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring


Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.


Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain
National Federation of Republican Assemblies


Evelio Silvera
Campaign for the American Future 


Mat Staver  
Founder and Chairman 
Liberty Counsel 


Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman,
Conservative Action Project
Chairman,
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund 


The Honorable Tony Perkins
President, Family Research Council
President, Council for National Policy


The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Former Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan  


Dr. Theodore Baehr
Chairman 
MOVIEGUIDE ® 


The Honorable David McIntosh
President
Club for Growth 


John F. Tate  
President  
America’s Liberty PAC  


The Honorable Belden Bell
Legacy Co-Chair 
The Heritage Foundation 


Saulius “Saul” Anuzis 
President
60 Plus Association 


Bob Adams 
President
Revive America PAC  


Charlie Copeland 
President 
Intercollegiate Studies Institute 


Peter J. Thomas 
Chairman 
The Conservative Caucus 


Caroline Lewis
Owner 
Percipio Communications 


The Honorable Mike Hill 
Former Member 
Florida State Representative 


The Honorable Gary L. Bauer 
President 
American Values 


Bob Carlstrom
President
The Carlstrom Group, LLC 


Christopher Malagisi 
Editor in Chief
Conservative
Book Club


Rick Manning
President
Americans for Limited Government 


Ralph A. Rebandt II
Lead Pastor, Senior Chaplain 
Oakland Hills Community Church 
Michigan Police Chiefs  


Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute 


Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a
Fair Judiciary


Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith 


Lewis K. Uhler  
Founder and President
National Tax 
Limitation Committee


The Honorable Mike Spence
Founding President
Conservative Republicans of California


Jerry Melvin
Former Dean 
Florida House of Representatives 


Darrel Wayne Johnson
CEO
Attic Corp


Joseph A. Morris
Partner
Morris & De La Rosa 


Donna Hearne
CEO
The Constitutional Coalition


Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness 


Joan Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications 


The Honorable Charles J. Cooper 
Former Assistant Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan
Cooper & Kirk, PLLC 


James N. Clymer  
Former National Chairman 
Constitutional Party 
National Committee


Col. Francis X. De Luca
USMCR (Retired) 

President Emeritus 
Civitas Institute


Paul Gessing 
President
Rio Grande Foundation   


Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs  
American Target Advertising  


Tom Giovanetti
President 
Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI)  


The Honorable Morton Blackwell
Chairman  
The Weyrich Lunch  


Tim LeFever 
Chairman  
Capitol Resource Institute   


Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property


Matt Mackowiak
Executive Director
Fight for Tomorrow


Marcia G. Taylor
CEO
Bennett International Group   


Rob Chambers 
Vice President 
AFA Action   


James C. Dobson Ph.D. 
Founder and President 
James Dobson Family Institute  


Sean Noble 
President
American Encore 


James Hansberger 
Chairman  
Legal Immigrants for America  


Amapola Hansberger 
President
Legal Immigrants for America 


E.C. Sykes 
Managing Director  
Aslan Ventures 


Jack Park
Conservative
Activist and Donor


Cleta Mitchell, Esq.

 


[i] Department of Health and Human Services, Individual Market Premium Changes: 2013-2017, May 23, 2017. https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/256751/IndividualMarketPremiumChanges.pdf
[ii] “FFM QHP landscape files: Health and dental datasets for researchers and issues,” HealthCare.gov, 2018 plan data. https://www.healthcare.gov/health-and-dental-plan-datasets-for-researchers-and-issuers/
[iii] Shubham Singhal, Brian Latko, Carlos Pardo Matrin, “The future of healthcare: Finding the opportunities that lie beneath the uncertainty,” McKinsey & Company, January, 2018. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/the-future-of-healthcare-finding-the-opportunities-that-lie-beneath-the-uncertainty
[iv] Edmund Haislmaier, “2018 Obamacare Health Insurance Exchanges: Competition and Choice Continue to Shrink,” The Heritage Foundation, January 25, 2018. https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/2018-obamacare-health-insurance-exchanges-competition-and-choice-continue
[v] Government Accountability Office, “Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-excepted Abortion Services by Qualified Health Plans,” September 16, 2014. https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-742R
[vi] Bruce Japsen, “Employer Plans Join Obamacare in Narrowing Doctor Networks for 2018,” Forbes, August 27, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/08/27/employer-plans-join-obamacare-in-narrowing-doctor-networks-for-2018/#6f5ccf703de4
[vii] Dan Mangan, “Sticker shock: Obamacare’s specialty drug customers faced big price hikes in 2017,” CNBC, September 5, 2017. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/05/obamacares-specialty-drug-customers-faced-big-price-hikes-in-2017.html
[viii] eHealth, “Obamacare Premiums Will Be Officially Unaffordable for Many in 2018,” June 22, 2017. https://resources.ehealthinsurance.com/affordable-care-act/obamacare-premiums-will-officially-unaffordable-many-2018

 

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