Republicans Will Work To Repeal Barack Obamacare
The US Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow healthcare subsidies to continue nationwide brought strong responses from Republican presidential candidates Thursday, with Dr. Ben Carson promising to “work even harder” to make certain that President Barack Hussein Obama’s successor “will repeal and replace Obamacare.”
“I am deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s ruling today,” Dr. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, said in a statement. “Obamacare fundamentally increases the power of the government over the people and healthcare providers.
“While I resent what the court has done, it only causes me to work even harder to make sure the next president will repeal and replace Obamacare with sensible consumer-empowering solutions that remove the government from the patient-doctor relationship,” he said.
“Those of us who pledge to repeal Obamacare must redouble our efforts and not waste time and energy mourning today’s ruling.”
Presidential candidate Donald Trump called the law a “total disaster” and said that his GOP rival Jeb Bush pushed his brother, former President George W. Bush, to appoint Chief Justice John Roberts to the court.
Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and also was part of the decision upholding the Affordable Care Act in Y 2012.
When people vote for Jeb Bush “they ought to remember that he was pushing Roberts, and Roberts is the one…they might as well call it the Roberts Obamacare because that’s honestly what it is,” Mr. Trump said.
Should he make it to the Oval Office, Donald Trump said he would repeal and replace Barack Obamacare with “something far better that would be less expensive and a lot better. It’s a horrible thing. Deductibles are through the roof. You do not get to use it because the deductibles are so high.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said, “I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court ruling in the King v. Burwell case, but this decision is not the end of the fight against Obamacare. This fatally flawed law imposes job-killing mandates, causes spending in Washington to skyrocket by $1.7 trillion, raises taxes by $1 trillion and drives up health care costs.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said, “This means Republicans in the House and Senate must redouble their efforts to repeal and replace this destructive and costly law. Workers have lost hours because of new costs faced by their employers, people have lost their insurance and cannot afford the dramatic premium and fee increases.”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said, The court has “once again erred in trying to correct the mistakes made by President Obama and Congress in forcing Obamacare on the American people.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said, “Today’s decision in King v. Burwell is judicial activism, plain and simple. For nakedly political reasons, the Supreme Court willfully ignored the words that Congress wrote, and instead read into the law their preferred policy outcome. These judges have joined with President Obama in harming millions of Americans. Unelected judges have once again become legislators, and bad ones at that. They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese.”
Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO, said the court “once again rewrote Obamacare to save this deeply flawed law, despite the plain text and in the face of overwhelming evidence that the law is not working for the majority of Americans.”
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “It was never up to the Supreme Court to save us from Obamacare. We need leadership that understands a heas a heavy-handed, one-size-fits-all policy does nothing to help health outcomes for Americans.”
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said, “President Obama would like this to be the end of the debate on Obamacare, but it isn’t. The debate will continue because the law has failed to accomplish its prime objective: Containing health care costs.”
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