Current Healthcare Plan on Capitol Hill

The current plan in Congress fully supported by President Obama would increase spending by $2 trillion dollars when fully implemented.

Didn’t we just spend over $800 billion on a Stimulus package that hasn’t delivered what they said it would deliver?

Over 2.3 million expected jobs never materialized, even the New York Times had to acknowledge this fact NYT's article

Is this the kind of change folks thought they’d be getting?

According to the Congressional Budget office the current Healthcare plan will add additional and burdensome costs onto an already unsustainable system

The current plan would empower Washington, not doctors and patients to make healthcare decisions. This is a link to the new bureaucracy that would be created -- visual of the plan

It would impose new taxes on working families during a recession

A research study conducted by the Lewin Group shows how the current healthcare plan will move millions of people happy with their current insurance to a government run plan

The current plan will be funded by dramatically raising taxes on small business owners, small businesses typically create 2/3’s of all new jobs

In our current economic situation and an urgent need for new jobs, the last thing the President and Congress should do is impose additional taxes on top of already struggling small businesses. This would cripple job creation, especially for low wage earners

The Congressional Budget Office Director recently testified before congress and told the Senate budget committee that the healthcare plan drafted by the Democratic majority would worsen the U.S. economic outlook by increasing deficits and driving our nation more deeply into debt