New Prescription Needed

Statement by 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin

(Alexandria, VA) – One year after the passage of his signature health care law, President Obama and members of his Administration are fanning out across the country on a targeted public relations campaign to try to convince the American people to like ObamaCare.

The Administration has their work cut out for them, as recent polls show a majority prefer a repeal of the legislation, and the effects of the program so far have resulted in higher health care premiums for millions of Americans, less access to care, and stifling regulations on small businesses.

60 Plus Association Chairman voiced concerns about ObamaCare shared by millions, “Seniors and working Americans are losing coverage, and those keeping their coverage are watching their premiums skyrocket according to reports from local newspapers to the New York Times. This public relations song and dance speaks volumes about how bad this law is, if it were accomplishing half of the goals Obama promised, it wouldn’t need a taxpayer-funded public relations campaign.

“If ObamaCare were a child, this Administration would be the equivalent of its parents, constantly in the principal’s office apologizing for its poor behavior. As we mourn the first anniversary of ObamaCare, the facts are not in dispute. It hasn’t lowered health care costs, it has raised them. It hasn’t increased access to care, it has choked it off. It hasn’t lowered the deficit, it has sent it to record levels.

“In all areas possible to measure, this health care bill has been a colossal failure. It is killing jobs, the economy, the nation’s finances, and the health care climate. The only public statement we need on this anniversary of ObamaCare is to see Obama himself at the blackboard, writing 1,000 times, ‘I will not try to take over one sixth of the U.S. economy with a government-hatched health care scheme.”

Unfortunately for seniors, ObamaCare is still the wrong prescription.

To add insult to injury, the President plans to recess-appoint his health care czars to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) which will lead to more rationing. This is a familiar routine the President had started when he recessed-appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, the ‘Rationer-in-Chief’, to head up the CMS. We have already seen Berwick operating on Avastin, a breast cancer drug which helps so many women but will now be unavailable to them because of the high cost.

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