 Uploaded on December 8, 2009 by republicanconference Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 2.0 Generic | WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Eric Cantor (VA-07) today issued the following statement in response to the ruling by Judge Henry Hudson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia which rejected the Obama Administration’s attempt to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Democrats' trillion dollar health care overhaul: "The Democrats' trillion dollar health care overhaul will raise taxes on working families and small businesses, cut Medicare benefits for seniors, increase the cost of insurance premiums for many Virginians, and burden our state with unfunded mandates we simply cannot afford. "Virginia has taken the lead, with more than a dozen other states, by challenging the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance or face a penalty, as well as passing the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act protecting the people of the Commonwealth from being forced to do so. |
"Governor McDonnell, Attorney General Cuccinelli, and the people of Virginia understand we need to repeal this harmful health care law. Republicans will use every tool available to repeal it and replace it with a more incremental approach that will lower costs, provide affordable state-based health care options, and empower doctors and patients." ###
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) :: Republican Whip FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2010 CONTACT: Doug Andres (202) 225-7440
DC Office | 329 Cannon House Office Building | Washington, D.C. 20515
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RELATED: Ruling on federal government's Motion to Dismiss Virginia's health care lawsuit FULL TEXT IN PDF FORMAT
2 comments:
If you oppose the requirement that you purchase health insurance, then are you OK with subsidizing visits by the uninsured to ER’s? Can we be up front about it and levy a tax to cover that, right now? Do you think auto insurance should be optional (I know, auto ownership is not mandatory — only if you want a job that’s not in a major city.) Do you think you should be relieved of taxes that pay for air traffic control? You’re required to purchase a service there, too, and it surely involves interstate commerce.
And if the requirement that you purchase health insurance (which, if you are reading this page, you probably already do, and wouldn’t consider not doing) is so unconscionably onerous, what do you propose? We do nothing? We continue to pay way too much for way too little? Do we go for socialized medicine? What? ("A more incremental approach" tells me nothing -- we've been living that canard for years.)
Cheers,
Jim Welke
(http://cyclopsvuethinks.blogspot.com/2010/08/bush-appointee-upholds-virginias.html)
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