Families Could Look"Forward” to Losing Their Health Plans Under ObamaCare Will Barber Defend It?

Washington Democrats Defend the Government Takeover of Healthcare that is Making it Harder for Employers to Offer Health Insurance Coverage

WASHINGTON --- Ron Barber's Washington Democrat allies are looking increasingly out of touch with Arizona families amidst new reports that show the big-government law is only making it harder for employers to keep offering health insurance benefits. Barber will have to decide whether to join them in putting defending their deeply flawed healthcare takeover as their top priority this election year.
"If Ron Barber wants to join his Washington Democrat allies in defending their government takeover of healthcare, he will be joining a losing battle that will only get worse as their big-government policies move forward and bring more drastic consequences,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Barber will have to concede that millions of workers could lose insurance benefits for their families because of increasing fees and mandates that punish businesses offering health benefits.”

A new survey of Fortune 100 companies shows taxes and fees in the government healthcare takeover make carrying insurance benefits increasingly difficult for employers:
"In total, the 71 Fortune 100 companies that responded to this inquiry could save an estimated $28.6 billion in 2014 alone by eliminating health insurance coverage for their more than 5.9 million U.S. employees (impacting more than 10.2 million employees and dependents covered by those plans) and instead paying the $2,000 per full-time employee fine created in the Democrats’ health care law. From 2014 through 2023, these employers could save an astounding $422.4 billion if they took this action.” (“BROKEN PROMISE: Why ObamaCare Will Force Americans to Lose the Health Care Coverage They Have and Like,” House Committee on Ways & Means, 5/1/12)

This comes on the heels of a report last week from President Obama’s own jobs council that showed the government healthcare takeover will be a significant burden on employers trying to offer health benefits:
"Documents provided by members of the Council confirm that the mandates, taxes, and fees
contained in PPACA will increase the cost of providing health care and insurance premiums.
These corporations face a future of ‘potential indirect cost increase[s] through higher medical
costs across all [the] U.S.’ due to fees on health insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and
medical device manufacturers mandated by PPACA.” (“Higher Costs, More Confusion, Less Coverage: How the Health Care Law Affects Employer-Provided Health Care Coverage,” House Committee on Energy & Commerce, April 2012)

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FLASHBACK Kirkpatrick Slashed Loan Choices for Students to Pay for ObamaCare

Arizona Democrat Eliminated Long-Standing Student Loan Program to Pay for Her Government Takeover of Healthcare

WASHINGTON --- As Ann Kirkpatrick’s former colleagues face the choice later this week on whether to prevent student loan interest rates from spiking or protect her government takeover of healthcare, it should be remembered that they have faced this decision before. When Kirkpatrick voted for the government healthcare takeover (Roll Call #167, 3/21/10), she chose to help pay for this massive big-government overhaul by eliminating the Federal Family Education Loan Program, a long-standing federal program which helped generations of students choose from competing student loan packages.
"Ann Kirkpatrick and his former Washington Democrat colleagues already eliminated a long-standing federal student loan program in order to funnel billions of dollars into her government takeover of healthcare,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."With this record, it would be no surprise if Kirkpatrick’s old Democrat allies decide to protect her big-government healthcare takeover instead of preventing student loan interest rates from doubling.”

The House is scheduled to vote on preventing student loan rates from doubling on Friday by cutting back an unpopular portion of the Democrats’ government healthcare takeover:
"An electoral battle between President Obama and Republicans over young voters escalated Wednesday when Speaker John Boehner scheduled a Friday vote to stop interest rates on student loans from doubling this summer. Boehner (R-Ohio) coupled the vote with an attack on Obama’s healthcare law, announcing he would pay the $5.9 billion cost of extending the loans with funds from what he called a healthcare ‘slush fund’ set up for preventive care.” (Molly K. Hooper, Mike Lillis and Amie Parnes,"House to vote on student loans,” The Hill’s On The Money Blog, 4/25/12)

When the Democrats passed their government takeover of healthcare, they funded part of it by eliminating the Federal Family Education Loan Program:
"The Federal Family Education Loan Program, which has helped generations of students attend college, is slated to end June 30. The termination could have long-term effects on some lending institutions... The loan program's elimination is the result of a provision in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act - the health care reform bill - that President Barack Obama signed into law on March 30.” (Mike Costanza,"Termination of student loan program causes changes,” Rochester Business Journal, 5/21/10)

The Democrats took billions from this now-defunct program to pay for their big-government healthcare takeover:
"In addition, $9 billion of the savings would be used to offset the costs of the health care overhaul proposed by the Democrats – an amount that lets the health care proposal meet requirements for the package to go through the budget-reconciliation process.” (Tamar Lewin,"Bill Proposes Increased Aid To the Needy For College,” The New York Times, 3/19/10)

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