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11/5/14, "100% of Newly Elected GOP Senators Campaigned on Repealing Obamacare," CNS News, Ali Meyer
"Every newly elected GOP senator who won in last night’s election campaigned on repealing Obamacare.
Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Sen. Joni Ernst
(R-Iowa), Sen Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Sen. James
Lankford (R-Okla.), Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. Mike Rounds
(R-S.D.), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) all ran on a platform of
repealing Obamacare.
Gardner touted
patient-centered care and a full repeal and replacement of President
Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
“Small businesses and the American people cannot afford President
Obama’s countless new regulations and tax increases. There is a right
way and a wrong to improve our country’s healthcare system, and the
President’s healthcare law just isn’t working. We need patient-centered
care and lower costs. It is not too late to start over with a full
repeal and replacement of the President’s healthcare law,” Gardner said
in a statement.
Daines echoed those statements, also calling to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“Every American wants healthcare at a reasonable cost. No American
wants a complicated plan full of false promises, special political
favors, and costs we cannot afford. We should repeal Obamacare and
implement an affordable health care system that actually improves the
quality of health care,” he said.
Perdue noted
on his campaign page that he was one of the millions who had their
personal health care policy cancelled and would support free market
solutions to replace Obamacare.
“Obamacare is an overreaching federal program that will actually
reduce the quality of health care and increase costs. I am one of the
millions of Americans that had my personal policy cancelled after being
told I could keep it. To make matters worse, Obamacare is discouraging
full-time job creation.
The consequences of politicians passing a
massive bill without reading it continue to emerge. We need to repeal
Obamacare and replace it with more affordable free market solutions,”
Perdue said on his campaign page.
Cotton signed
the Club for Growth’s “Repeal-It!” pledge which states, “I hereby
pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S.
House of Representatives/U.S. Senate to sponsor and support legislation
to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace
it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing
government.”
Ernst and Tillis have said they would repeal Obamacare.
“Joni is staunchly opposed to the Obamacare law. Joni supports immediate
action to repeal Obamacare and replace it with common sense,
free-market alternatives that put patients first, and health care
decisions back in the hands of each of us rather than Washington
bureaucrats,” Ernst said on her campaign page.
“As North Carolina’s U.S. Senator, Tillis will push for repeal of
Obamacare, a balanced budget, and conservative economic policy,” Tillis’
campaign page stated.
Lankford, a former congressman, has previously vowed to repeal Obamacare.
“I vowed to repeal this vastly unpopular law and today I joined more
than 240 members of the House of Representatives to honor that
commitment,” Lankford said. “Americans were rightly outraged by its
passage and have continued to resist the job-destroying, government
takeover of health care.
Those voices have not been ignored and the
pledge to make government smaller and less intrusive is well underway.”
Rounds campaigned
on a platform of repealing Obamacare saying, “Republicans don’t have
the votes right now to repeal Obamacare. We must take over control of
the Senate which will require Republicans to pick up six seats this
cycle. That is why this U.S. Senate race is so important. Please join me
in the fight to repeal Obamacare. Our families deserve better.”
Former congresswoman Capito voted for a full repeal of Obamacare,
highlighting the massive tax increases that the law would impose on
Americans.
“Americans of all ages and income brackets, and businesses across the
country are learning the disturbing truth about the partisan
legislation that was rammed through Congress without a single Republican
vote. With the law’s full implementation looming, Americans are bracing
for massive tax increases and daunting uncertainty. As health care
costs soar, families’ access to care is limited and businesses
contemplate closing their doors, it is time to fully repeal Obamacare,”
Capito said.
In Alaska and Louisiana where the Senate races have not been called
yet, both GOP candidates have expressed that they would fight for a
repeal of Obamacare.
Candidate Dan Sullivan of Alaska has said
he would repeal and replace Obamacare as his campaign page reads, “As
Alaska’s Attorney General, Dan sued to stop Obamacare. He will continue
that fight as your U.S. Senator. It is time to repeal and replace
Obamacare and empower Alaskans to make their own healthcare decisions
not the federal government.
Louisiana’s Senate GOP candidate, Bill Cassidy, has also voiced
support for the repeal of Obamacare, listing 10 reasons why it should
be replaced. As a practicing physician, Cassidy has said that the ACA
would drive up costs, endangers access to care, destroys jobs and
increases taxes just to name a few.
“By definition, a law that creates over 150 boards, bureaucracies,
and commissions does not empower patients. Repealing this law is the
first step to enacting real health care reform that lowers costs and
expands access to quality health care for all Americans,” Cassidy said." via Drudge
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