60 Plus Jim Martin, “Two years of bad medicine for America, and it will only get worse.“

(Alexandria, Virginia) – Today marks the two year anniversary of President Obama’s signature piece of legislation of his Administration, Obamacare, and America is in mourning, not celebrating, according to 60 Plus Association Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.1 million national supporters.

“From the very start, we said that Obamacare was bad medicine for America and seniors especially, and that prediction is only becoming more true the more we see of this disastrous piece of legislation. It’s ominous beginnings started by slashing more than $500 billion from Medicare, and that was only the start.

“Aside from being the single biggest threat to the individual liberty of every American by handing critical decisions of life-saving care to bureaucrats, Obamacare as it exists will hurt Americans and be especially devastating to America’s seniors.  It is beyond dispute that Obamacare will speed the bankruptcy of our nation, by adding trillions of new spending and taxes to our already ailing economy.  It will cost jobs by saddling businesses with thousands of pages of government mandates and billions in new taxes. It will cause private health insurance premiums to continue to skyrocket, and force doctors out of the practice of medicine.

“This is the wrong piece of legislation and it must be repealed. Obamacare has not yet even been fully enacted and we have already seen that, like a tornado ripping across the landscape, it leaves wreckage wherever it lands. The President barely mentioned his prized health care law in his last State of the Union address, giving it a scant 44 words in an hour-long speech. He knows that America doesn’t want it, and those who did not receive one of the thousand plus waivers are already seeing how it will hurt their health care and hand their fate to the government.

“Obamacare has made our nation sicker, and if not repealed will put our nation in a state of critical condition. The House of Representatives made a brave start in its repeal by voting to axe the IPAB rationing board, but we must go further. We must repeal Obamacare, or future generations will remember this date with regret, when America truly went took a one way road into permanent decline.”

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