Signatures updated: 7/12/17
As the Senate considers new options to replace Obamacare, it is critical that any bill includes solutions that give consumers more choice, create real flexibility for Medicaid, bring more free market principles into the market, and rein in long-term growth of Medicaid.
• Consumer Choice: Obamacare’s insurance mandates have caused premiums to skyrocket. To address this, the Senate should allow insurance companies that offer at least one exchange plan deemed compliant with Obamacare to also sell other plans as well. These plans would still be subject to state laws and states would have the flexibility to create options without worrying about Obamacare.
• Medicaid Flexibility: Congress must create permanent solutions giving states the flexibility to create new innovative programs to protect our society’s most vulnerable. States are the natural incubators for these new ideas and cannot be dependent on the waivers from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
• Market Reforms: Any new program must embody new consensus free market reforms. Some of these include allowing consumers to purchase insurance across state lines, expanding association health plans, allowing consumers to pay premiums from their Health Savings Accounts, and encouraging states to enact caps on punitive damages in medical malpractice cases.
• Reining in Long-Term Medicaid Growth: Medicaid is one of several entitlement programs which continues to push annual federal deficits at an unsustainable pace. We must use this historic opportunity to reform Medicaid and ensure its long-term fiscal sustainability.
If Congress cannot get the replacement program right, it should simply repeal Obamacare effective December 31, 2018, and take the time needed to get the new solution right. It must be a full and complete repeal of all the tax increases, all the spending, and all the regulations. Don’t try a partial repeal in which Republicans keep some of the tax increases, or some of the spending, or some of the regulations.
Conservatives still believe that repealing Obamacare must be a priority. Repealing Obamacare has been central to Republicans’ electoral success – both in Congress and the White House. As noted in a previous memo signed by more than 100 conservative leaders:
For the last six years, Americans have endured extraordinary hardship under Obamacare, a thousand-page law of broken promises and failed policies. Sadly, millions of families and individuals have had their insurance plans canceled and access to their doctors and drugs limited. And they have lacked affordable insurance options. Those Americans who are stuck with Obamacare are facing skyrocketing premiums, soaring deductibles, and shrinking health care networks. Tragically, many of our most vulnerable citizens, who were participating in safety-net health programs long before the implementation of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, must now wait interminably to see overwhelmed health care providers — and some of those people die while they wait. It is true, of course, that some people have benefited from the President’s law, but given the money spent, it would be extraordinary if there had been no benefit at all.
Either get the “replace” program right or fulfill the promise to repeal Obamacare now and take more time replacing it. It’s more important we get it right than get it fast.
| The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General President Ronald Reagan
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The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
Chairman, Conservative Action Project Former White House Advisor, President Ronald Reagan
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| Michael A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer Heritage Action for America
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The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives Former Member, Ohio
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| The Honorable Colin A. Hanna
President Let Freedom Ring, Inc.
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The Honorable David McIntosh
U.S. House of Representatives Former Member, Indiana |
| Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund
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The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Former Counselor US Attorney General
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| David Bozell
President ForAmerica
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Diana Banister
President and Partner Shirley & Banister Public Affairs |
| Rebecca Hagelin
Board of Directors, FamilyTalk Secretary, Council for National Policy
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L. Brent Bozell, III
Founder and President Media Research Center
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| The Honorable James C. Miller III
Former Director of OMB President Ronald Reagan
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Lewis K. Uhler
Founder and President National Tax Limitation Committee
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| James C. Dobson Ph.D.
Founder & President Family Talk
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Bob Adams
President Revive America PAC
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| Elaine Donnelly
President Center for Military Readiness
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Gary L. Bauer
President American Values
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| Lt. Col. Allen B. West (US Army, Ret)
Member, 112th US Congress |
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder & President Tea Party Patriots |
| Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO The Martin Organization, Inc.
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Joseph A. Morris
Morris & De La Rosa
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| Haley E. Martin
President The Martin Foundation
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Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President The Martin Organization, Inc. |
| Evelio Silvera
Campaign for the American Future
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Anthony Allen
President Hannibal LaGrange University |
| Barry Creamer
President Criswell College
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Nicholas Stehle
Campaign for the American Future |
| Jerry Melvin
President Florida Republican Assembly
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Shawn A. Mitchell
National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies |
| Richard H. Wright
Retired
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Lee A. Beaman
Chief Executive Officer Beaman Automotive |
| Lisa Calvert
Christian speaker and educator Rabon-Calvert Interests
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Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator Conservatives of Faith
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| Floyd Brown
Chairman Western Center for Journalism
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Francis X. De Luca
President Civitas Institute
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| Ginni Thomas
President Liberty Consulting
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Martha Boneta
Executive Vice President Citizens for the Republic
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| Becky Gerritson
President Wetumpka TEA Party, (AL)
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Theodore Baehr
Chairman MOVIEGUIDE®
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| Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman Eagle Forum
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Ed Corrigan
Former Executive Director Senate Steering Committee
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| Stella Morabito
Senior Contributor The Federalist
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Kevin Freeman
Founder NSIC Institute
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| Judson Phillips
Founder Tea Party Nation
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E.C. Sykes
Managing Partner Aslan Capital
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| The Honorable Mike Spence
Founding President Conservative Republicans of California
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Benjamin R. Case
President Case Consulting Services, Inc.
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| Willes K. Lee
President National Federation of Republican Assemblies
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Khadine Ritter
President Eagle Forum of Ohio
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| Darrel Johnson
Owner Attic Corp
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Melvin Adams
Past President RENEWANATION
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| C. Preston Noell III
President Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
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Charlie Cato
Chairman Leading The Way PAC
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| The Honorable Mike Hill
State House of Representatives Former Member, Florida
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Belden Bell
Co-Chair Heritage Legacy Society
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| Christopher Malagisi
Editor in Chief Conservative Book Club
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Randy M. Long
CEO Long Business Advisors, LLC
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| The Honorable Donald Devine
Former Director U.S Office of Personnel Management Senior Scholar Fund for American Studies
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Frank J. Gaffney
President Center for Security Policy
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| Sean Noble
President American Encore
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Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
Washington Bureau Chief
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| Marcia G. Taylor
CEO & President Bennett International Group, Inc.
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Tricia Erickson
President Angel Pictures & Publicity, Inc.
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| William Pascoe
Managing Partner Antietam Communications
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Nick Logan
CEO Cornerstone Payment Systems
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| Neil Siefring
Vice President Hilltop Advocacy, LLC
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Tim Wildmon
President American Family Association
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| John McCardell
President America’s Liberty Committee
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John F. Tate
President America’s Liberty PAC
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| Michael R. Long
State Chairman New York State Conservative Party
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Dee Hodges
President Maryland Taxpayers Association
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| Gerrye Johnston
CEO Men and Women for a Representative Democracy in America
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Allen Hébert
Chairman American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
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| Joe Calvert
President Rabon-Calvert Interests
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Taylor Budowich
Executive Director Tea Party Express
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| Terrence M. Scanlon
Retired President/Chairman Capital Research Center
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Ralph A. Rebandt, II
Senior Pastor Oakland Hills Community Church
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| George Rasley
Managing Editor
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Samuel B. Casey
Treasurer & General Counsel Liberty T
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| Kay R. Daly
President Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
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Anthony Saliba
Director Saliba Venture Management
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| Adam Brandon
President FreedomWorks
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The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
Chairman The Weyrich Lunch
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| Kimberly Bellissimo
Founder & CEO ForthRight Strategy
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Terry Lynch
Past President Park Cities Republican Women
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| Martha Boneta
Executive Vice President Citizens for the Republic
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Bob Thompson
Former Administrator The Weyrich Lunch
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| Susan A. Carleson
Chairman/CEO American Civil Rights Union
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Belden Bell
Legacy Society Co-Chair Heritage Foundation
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| The Honorable Seth Morgan
Former Member Ohio House of Representatives
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William H. Shaker
President American Council for Health Care Reform
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| Gene Mills
President Louisiana Family Forum
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Cindy Honcoop
State Director Washington Eagle Forum
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| Richard S. Slayton
Retired
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Ed Martin
President Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund
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| Rebekah Gantner
Executive Director Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund
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James O’Hickey
Health and Nutrition Self-Employed
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| Peter J. Thomas
Chairman Americans for Constitutional Liberty
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Bob Carlstrom
President The Carlstrom Group, LLC
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| Rick Scarborough
Founder Vision America Action
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James L. Martin
Founder and Chairman 60 Plus Association
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