In yet other indication of how harmful liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) massive health care overhaul is to middle-class families in Connecticut, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to slam families with higher insurance costs:
A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections.
Notably, Murphy’s Democrat primary opponents Susan Bysiewicz and William Tong are also enthusiastic supporters of the costly overhaul.
“Chris Murphy ignored the best interests of Connecticut when he voted to ram this costly overhaul into law, and now middle-class families are being forced to pay for his irresponsible agenda,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “No matter who emerges from their contentious primary, Connecticut voters know that they have Democrats like Murphy, Bysiewicz and Tong to blame for this massive health care law that raises their costs, hikes their taxes, cuts their Medicare, saddles them with mandates from Washington, and puts America even deeper in debt.”
Murphy, Bysiewicz and Tong’s fellow liberal Nancy Pelosi famously declared that we had to pass the Democrats’ health care overhaul to find out what’s in it. Today, we find that Connecticut families will be forced – under pain of financial penalties – to buy coverage they cannot afford.
The Democrats’ health care overhaul also raises taxes by $570 billion, cuts Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund the federal government’s expansion into other areas of the health care market, imposes an onerous “individual mandate” on every American, and slams state governments like Connecticut’s with at least $118 billion in unfunded Medicaid liabilities through the first decade of full implementation (through 2023). The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the law, known as ObamaCare, will increase federal deficits by $260 billion through 2019.
