WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The senior Republican on the U.S. Senate health
committee this week joined in introducing a bill and an amendment to
delay the health care law’s employer and individual mandates until 2015.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said: “Full repeal of this law is my
goal—no family in Tennessee should ever be forced to comply with the
mess and mistakes of Obamacare—but I hope even Democrats will be willing
to see that families certainly shouldn’t have to next year when
American businesses are getting a break. We need to repeal this law and
start passing step-by-step reforms that transform the health care
delivery system by putting patients back in charge, giving them more
choices, and reducing the cost of health care so that more people can
afford it.”
The Fairness for American Families amendment was introduced by Senate
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senator Dan Coats
(R-Ind.) with Senators Alexander, John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Coburn
(R-Okla.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
Alexander also co-sponsored a bill introduced by Senator Coats
earlier this week that would delay the health care law’s employer and
individual mandates until 2015.
He is an original cosponsor of legislation introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to fully defund the law.
Alexander voted against the health care bill after warning his
colleagues it would be “an historic mistake,” and has since voted on the
Senate floor to repeal or defund Obamacare 23 times since it became
law, and overall to oppose or repeal Obamacare or its provisions more than 90 times.
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And he also voted for funding it once. Unfortunately that "once" is all it took to make Obamacare a reality.
ReplyDeleteCan't have it both ways. Obamacare can't be touted into the biggest, job-destroying, freedom-stealing, un-American thing of all time and then also try to excuse ANY votes for it.
Especially when it happened just this last March.
Then come the excuses: "well, it was rolled into the kissing-babies-act, or grandma wouldn't get her check otherwise, or it's for the children we had to do it". Entirely by design. Sick of the liars and the games.