The Health Care Law
On March 25, 2010, Congress passed sweeping legislation that will fundamentally realign our nation’s health care system. This massive health care overhaul will exacerbate the very problems this reform effort sought to address. It will dramatically alter our deteriorating economic and fiscal conditions for the worse and may irrevocably impair the American identity.
Sky-rocketing health care costs are drowning families, businesses and governments in red ink—leaving millions priced out of the market and without coverage. This legislation—with its maze of mandates, dictates, controls, tax hikes and subsidies—pushes costs further in the wrong direction. It initiates a government takeover of the health care sector (one-sixth of the U.S. economy), intrudes in the doctor- patient relationship, and increases total spending by $2.6 trillion. It raises taxes by more than a half-trillion dollars over the next 10 years—the largest tax increase in American history—and cuts more than a half-trillion dollars from Medicare to finance this new entitlement. All told, this legislation will dramatically add to an already unsustainable rate of government spending that will overwhelm the Federal budget and dramatically change the way Americans get health care.