Obamacare: Marching Further Towards Socialism

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Obamacare: Marching Further Towards Socialism

Text of the Resolution as Adopted (PDF)

• Obamacare: Marching Further Towards Socialism - Adopted by the RNC on July 31, 2009

Text of the Resolution at Proposed:

WHEREAS, Socialism is defined as government control of industries, centralized economic decision-making, and engaging in social engineering via mandates; President Obama’s health care program, “Obamacare”, with a price tag of $1.6 trillion (though only covering 1/3 of uninsured), satisfies the definition of socialism with its goal to achieve single-payer socialized medicine; and,

WHEREAS, Obamacare will result in employers dropping employees’ coverage, or decreasing their number of employees, force private insurers out of business, force patients to enroll in Obamacare, force physicians to accept Obamacare patients, and allow government to set service fees; and

WHEREAS, physicians already lose money servicing government patients on Medicare and Medicaid now, Obamacare will increase the problem by further reducing Medicare and Medicaid fees to doctors and hospitals, and will further discourage our brightest students from entering the medical field and will bring a halt to medical innovation; and,

WHEREAS, Obamacare, using the excuse of controlling health care costs, will take away the freedom to choose one’s doctor and interfere in the individual’s responsibility with his/her doctor to make personal health care decisions, and will result in the government controlling every aspect of American lives; and,

WHEREAS, Obamacare will practice redistribution of wealth by taxing employees’ medical benefits and politically incorrect lifestyle choices (such as soda and salty foods), by imposing a federal sales tax, and/or by increased deficit spending with borrowed money, bankrupting this country with this run-away entitlement train; and,

WHEREAS, the result of Obamacare will be government control of 20% of the national economy by taking over health care in addition to the Federal government’s direct control of banks, auto manufacturers, insurance companies, and mortgage industry; and,

WHEREAS, the future of Obamacare is seen everywhere socialized medicine is practiced (such as the UK, Canada, and Australia) where the results are bureaucracy in decision-making, rationed care, life-threatening delays, and denied care; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the members of the Republican National Committee recognize that Obamacare is marching America further towards Socialism and urge that it be stopped before it destroys the best medical care system the world has ever known; and, further be it,

RESOLVED, that true cost savings be achieved by tort reform so physicians won’t need to practice defensive medicine with unnecessary referrals and expensive tests and insurance companies won’t pay out large settlements for frivolous lawsuits; and further be it,

RESOLVED, that true cost savings can be achieved by eliminating most of the existing1900 government mandates (such as in vitro fertilization and marriage counseling) for non-essential care; and further be it,

RESOLVED, that true cost savings be achieved by allowing Medicare patients to opt out of Medicare program to pay for their own catastrophic insurance, and allowing Medicare participating physicians to discount their service fees for cash payments; and further be it,

RESOLVED, that all individuals be allowed tax deductibility for their medical insurance premiums and cash payments for medical and drug expenses, without any threshold of a percentage of adjusted gross income or total income limits; and that everyone be encouraged to enroll in health savings accounts, which receive tax treatment similar to IRAs; and further be it,

RESOLVED, that this resolution will be mailed to each congressional Republican, Republican state party, and the media, and posted in the RNC website.

Chief Sponsor:

• Solomon Yue, National Committeeman for Oregon

Co-Sponsors:

• Cathie Adams, National Committeewoman for Texas
• Bruce Ash, National Committeeman for Arizona
• Evie Axdahl, National Committeeman for Minnesota
• James Bopp, Jr., National Committeeman for Indiana
• Donna Cain, National Committeewoman for Oregon
• De Carlson, National Committeewoman for Nebraska
• Cindy Costa, National Committeewoman for South Carolina                                          
• Demetra DeMonte, National Committeewoman for Illinois
• Betti Hill, National Committeewoman for Montana
• Jeff Kent, National Committeeman for Washington
• Peggy Lambert, National Committeewoman for Tennessee
• Kim Lehman, National Committeewoman for Iowa
• Pat Longo, National Committeewoman for Connecticut
• Carolyn McLarty, National Committeewoman for Oklahoma
• Lilly Nunez, National Committeewoman for Colorado
• Pete Ricketts, National Committeeman for Nebraska
• Steve Scheffler, National Committeeman for Iowa
• Rosie Tripp, National Committeewoman for New Mexico
• Helen Van Etten, National Committeewoman for Kansas

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