March 23, 2010
Mr. Jake Leonard
804 Capps Avenue
Nokomis, IL 62075-1415
Dear Mr. Leonard:
Thank you for contacting me. I apologize if my last email regarding healthcare was illegible. While technology has enabled me to respond quickly to the over 5,000 calls, emails and letters I've received on healthcare this week, no technology is perfect and emails may not always appear as intended.
As you are likely aware, on March 21, 2010 I voted with the only bipartisan side on the health care reform bill: the opposition.
In the months and years to come, I look forward with hope that this same bipartisan cooperation will repeal Obamacare's job killing and state bankrupting mandates while preventing its devastating cuts to Medicare. I am confident future Congresses can and will restore freedom to our healthcare system, giving Americans the tools to access affordable health care in our ever-resilient free market.
The reality is that in the midst of a sluggish economy and a state budgetary crisis, this legislation writes exactly the wrong prescription for job growth and financial solvency. Obamacare's insurance mandates and $52 billion tax increase on employers will destroy rather than create jobs. And seeing the path to bankruptcy unfold before them, over half the states have already introduced legislation to opt out of this bill's unprecedented and unfunded state mandates. In Illinois alone, the bill establishes upwards of $2 billion in unfunded burdens on top of our already $12.8 billion budget deficit in 2011.
Many of the jobs to disappear in the wake of this legislation will be medical professionals themselves. The plan's $523.5 billion cut to Medicare had President Obama's own Medicare Actuaries report doctors "might end their participation in the [Medicare] program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries.)" The only jobs actually created by this bill will be over 16,000 IRS agents to enforce the mandates as well as thousands of new bureaucrats to administer the government's takeover of health care.
Just as our workers, our employers and our seniors will suffer under Obamacare, so too will the unborn. President Obama's Executive Order is a clear sign the bill itself would permit taxpayer funded abortions. And with the President's ability to modify or rescind his order at any time, the threat to the sanctity of life under this new law is a very real concern.
The effects of this legislation need not become permanent. You can find out exactly how we can correct the flaws in Obamacare at gop.gov/
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