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Making ObamaCare an Issue this Fall

Now that we are in the midst of the final sprint of election season 2010, the issues that will decide the election are becoming clearer by the day. It’s about the economy and jobs. It’s about taxes.

It should also be about healthcare reform.

However, a recent Hotline poll showed Republican campaign insiders downplaying ObamaCare as an issue.  We understand why the Republican consultants are doing this-they think the issue is too controversial and not a slam dunk winner. These are, however, the same “experts” who crowed that PA-12 was a shoe-in and HI-01 unwinnable.

But they are wrong on the merits – healthcare is the top intensity issue among Independents, as survey by Doug Schoen for Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) proved. 48% of Independents replied that even if they agreed with a candidate on everything else, if they disagree with them on this issue, they won’t vote for them.  Best of all, they DO disagree with ObamaCare and the gross overreach of government it mandates. But why are Republicans not making this more of an issue? They should be.

More importantly, not making dismantling and defunding ObamaCare an issue this fall is terribly shortsighted. Conservatives in Congress need to come out of the election with a mandate and this is one of the issues that will give them just that. It is critical. Unfortunately, consultants and party operatives whose time horizon goes no further than 30 odd days don’t make the best long term strategic decisions.

We need to do three things in the next month:

1) make ObamaCare more of an issue where it should be (because it’s an issue we absolutely win),

2) hold politicians accountable (including those who didn’t vote for ObamaCare but are doing nothing to undo it and are currently getting a free pass), and

3) create a mandate for conservatives in the next Congress to do whatever they can towards repealing and or defunding ObamaCare.

We can accomplish all three things with the new Repeal Pledge which is a project of Independent Women’s Voice, in conjunction with American Majority Action.  The Repeal Pledge is qualitatively different than the other health care pledges out there:

  • It creates accountability on a comprehensive spectrum of possible action. It doesn’t just apply to defunding or repeal, but to all the relevant incremental procedural steps, including discharge petitions, that will help defund and de-authorize, whether implemented in whole or in part, all of ObamaCare.
  • It applies NOW to those who are currently able to sidestep the issue, and helps challengers define where they stand. It allows incumbents, and importantly challengers, to highlight differences where the issue has been hard to frame.  In short it makes this an issue where it should be but isn’t.
  • It’s integrated. By linking the People’s Promise to the specific candidate pledge, it has the potential to create a mandate for the next term, and gives the pledge teeth to help with signatures now and adherence later.

This pledge takes a large subject that is hard to explain succinctly and reduces it to a binary choice, a yes/no decision, which ultimately becomes a values-marker for larger beliefs about the appropriate role of government and personal freedom.

Dozens of Members of Congress as well as candidates have already signed the Repeal Pledge. Our goal is to get dozens more. So get your friends engaged on this issue. Contact your Member of Congress and the candidate running against the incumbent and ask them to sign it today.

Heather Higgins is President and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and Drew Ryun is President of American Majority Action.

COMMENTS

  • michiganwolverine

    Obamacare=Romneycare.

    How do we repeal and replace Obamacare when the establishment keeps telling us that Romney is the front-runner and Romney will be the nominee?

    Do we really want Romney running all over the country this fall supporting Republican candidates while also dodging the question of Obamacare/Romneycare?

    How can a candidate come out against Obamacare when they have Romney standing behind them on the campaign trail? Are they going to defend Romney in order to get his money donation? Or are they going to stand up and state that Romneycare is just as bad as Obamacare?

    We don’t like mandates. We don’t like higher premiums. We don’t like long waits to get into see a specialists. We don’t like when a state goes bankrupt because of a new healthcare program. All of that is Romneycare.

    So either get rid of Romneycare and move this country forward. Or keep pushing Romney as the 2012 nominee and look forward to 4 more years of Obama.

    • bobojake

      Romney would of kicked obama geister all over the filed in the debates. Romney went to his native State Utah and cleaned out the crud and obama type elcrapo in the Olympics. Now we have obama in the Whitehouse 10,000 times more CORRUPT then the Olymics was.
      I think it is time to win in NOV and throw the obama-lyin-itis out, Throw his obamacare out, throw his foney banking bill. Then began clean up of the freddi-fanni-banking scandal with full testimony under oath of obama, dodd, frank, reid, pelosi, schumer, murray, boxer, waters, rahm, raines et al.
      Book the ones that committed Criminal Fraud against the United States Citizens.

      • Doc Holliday

        this was all about hopenchange. No one wanted a President that looked like all the others, so to speak, those are just the facts. Do you forget vote or die?

        Romney seems to be pretty good, so I don’t want to torch him now and then have to defend him later. But as for Romney, the Huckster, and even Palin, I am just not getting it. Unlike several of my friends here, I would pick Palin over those two. I really don’t want a great manager right now, I want someone to tear the house down. And if you have been to DC recently, you would know the NEA Planned Parenthood, and all the Union have amazing houses/actually compounds right next to the White House. this is not figurative language, I am talking bricks and mortar, actually mostly marble.

        • aesthete

          it seems doubtful to me that GOP primary voters would choose Romney as the party’s representative, given the unpopularity of ObamaCare and its similarities with RomneyCare.

          • aesthete

            which isn’t so much an endorsement of her as it is an acknowledgement of the poor calibre of our front-runners.

        • gmscan

          has never cared about health care. They care more about free trade with Peru than they do about one-sixth of the American economy. They see it as a squishy, bleeding heart issue. That is how we got into this mess. They hand it off the the Dems year after year. That is also why women trend Dem. Not abortion, but health care.

          Yet, we have the evidence that free markets work and centralized planning fails every single time. Consumer Driven Health Care has succeeded beyond expectation. We have the data! We can prove it!

          But it has been nearly impossible to interest the Republican insiders. Their eyes glaze over every time it comes up.

        • gunsrus

          I could agree with you. Face it,we don’t. The healthcare debate has boiled down to who steals the money, “private” insurance or Government “Insurance”.
          No one has asked why should healthcare be a profit center, or more importantly, why is the insurance model the answer. As this is what has fueled the abortion mills, skyrocketing RX prices, copayments tied to credit reports, why don’t we republicans think outside the box and look at alternatives?
          Your healthcare has been determined by a bureaucracy for years. Who really cares if it gets replaced by same??

          Greeds the Key!

          • JSobieski

            I am sympathetic with regards to most of your comment except for the question above.

            Where profit is not allowed, innovation, quality, and availability suffer.

            Many conservatives are proponents of HSA accounts so that the majority of expenses can be paid out of pocket directly by the consumer. However, insurance has its purposes. Many treatments are simply prohibitively expensive, and present a win-win opportunity for both business and consumers.

            Pre-Obamacare I had some meaningful choices that I could make. After HHS defines the one-size fits all coverage requirements, there won’t be ANY meaningful choices.

            In short, your comment is overly simplistic. Nobody is stealing my money at the moment or forcing me to do anything.

            HSAs are precisely the out fo the box solution that we have been talking about for years. Bush expanded them and Obamacare will kill them over time.

          • gunsrus

            there are models such as the telecommunications act of 1934 that established ATT and guaranteed a reasonable profit.
            When the “list” price for Codeine is in the thousands of dollars, someone is “Stealing”

          • JSobieski

            If you are claiming that fire departments invest substantial monies in the development of new and innovative products, please provide a link.

            Telecommunications was pathetic in this country until deregulated. Look at what the breakup of AT&T has brought us? Telecom deregulation has added to the wealth and prospertity of the nation.

            What you are describing in terms of healthcare is England. England is living off of our R&D dollars, an option that we won’t have if we do what you say. Even with that benefit, healthcare in England stinks.

            Stealing is when you demand that companies invest billions of dollars pursuing drug treatments, and only mention money when they find cures. Do you want to socialize their loses as well?

            Instead of socializing and ruining healthcare, I vote we socialize and ruin whatever industry YOU work in. That way, your salary and job satisfaction will fall into the toilet. So how about we start with you?

          • gunsrus

            and just about broke from dealing with the COBRA joke they call a coverage guarantee – which only applies to people who make no claims, and certainly not a pre-existing condition.
            I have been robbed by trying to pay for the “private” insurance for my wife. Thats when I figured out how rigged this game actually is,
            your coverage is selected in October,
            OOPS new policy, high deductible
            just about paid at end of December,
            OOPS new calender year
            restart that there deductible,
            Monthly payment = 3 luxury cars
            Calls to every insurance broker listed to do business with the state – “love to help you son, but it will be cheaper to bury your wife”
            Drive by the HMOs, 850,000 sq feet of office space, occupied by pencil pushing bureaucrats squeezing the doctors and purchasing the “bad debt” when the Dr helps the patient and writes off the copayment.
            Conservatively estimate 50K annual salary for each occupant – number of patients treated by these clowns – Zero. Bonuses for number of claims denied or reduced – certainly.

            Fraud that would make a Government contractor blush. like the $38 per 110v A/C outlet installed at the Henry Ford HAP office. (installation not included). I saw the invoice. Each cubicle required 6.

            For an Industry that led the world in innovation and engineering until the Jimmy Carter DOJ saved us, to be described as “pathetic” is strange. The fact that they had completed their mission, which was to wire the country with affordable phone service was the primary reason for deregulation.

          • deano64

            Profit is what has created the finest medical care in the world. Does it have problems? Sure. But it’s still the best in the world (was anyway…). Many miracle drugs and new life saving procedures came about because of profit. People involved in the healthcare industry need to put food on their table too. Oh yes and “Evil Corporations” have the need to show a profit for their owners and shareholders too. Why those low down Dirty S.O.B.’s!

            By the way healthcare is a privilege not a right as you seem to think.

          • JSobieski

            The vast majority of the fraud in healthcare occurs in the government run programs, if for no other reason than that is where is the money is at.

            In case you haven’t noticed, the number of options in the telecommunications has gone up dramatically.

            You fail to address in any way how your “vision” for healthcare is different than what they have in the UK (and what they have stinks).

            Look, if you don’t like business and profits, there are plenty of countries you could move to where the people agree with you.

        • bodenet

          There was a lot of power behind Obama. Obama never could have beaten McCain if he did not have the organizations of Soros behind him, the major media behind him and ACORN and the big money. I doubt that anyone understood the kind of power and organization it took to “install” him. Even Hillary would have beaten him without all of the power that forced her out. So are we going to think that all of the power and interests that put him in power are going to be absent in the future?

          • powertothepeople

            that the “powers” were the ones who shifted the lead from Clinton to Obama, it was not the “powers” who gave us a democratic president. It would not have mattered who won the democratic nomination, they were going to be president. And here is why..

            Way too many in this country at the time who felt government was supposed to create a perfect society free of all ills.

            Way too many were disgusted with the republican behavior of the last 10 or so years. You will always have the base on each side, but they have to be motivated to vote. Ours were not and even with the insurgence of hope that came with Palin, it was not enough and the stink of McCain overshadowed it.

            There is a large group in this country who feel they should get what they want even if they did not earn it. Anyone who has worked hard, studied hard, and made a good living is the enemy. Why should they have, when they do not have it as well, even though they have done nothing to earn it. Obama preached to this choir and they bought into it. If I remember correctly, that election had the highest ever turnout of the poor and black. They thought he would fly in, walk on water and rip it from the rich and then give it to them. This surge will not occur again as they soon got hit with reality.

            The list could go on and on, but the point is, no republican was going to win, period. We had failed the people, broke our word, and looked as much like a dem as the dems do. Then to top it off, we alienated our base with some of the lousiest choices for president as we could put up. This was true even during the primaries.

            Soros and the media had a lot to do with shifting the election to Obama, but only in the democratic primaries. The election results were already determined long before the actual contest began.

            Difference now is, the base on our side is motivated and motivated like never before. With the insurgence of true conservatives, the squishy side of the republican supporters is again ready to vote, independents are voting with common sense again rather than with starry eyes, and even much of the so called conservative part of the democratic base are seeing the dem party for what it is. Obama will still have much of the Soros types in his pocket and much of the media, the difference is, most are no longer fooled. He will keep the hands out crowd, but we no longer feel obligated to walk on eggshells around them, so we are finally saying what needs to be said, and that is real change is needed, but it can not come from Obama.

            We are famous for snatching defeat from the arms of victory, but given the wake up that has occurred and the desperate situation this country is in, even we may not be able to beat ourselves this time. The key to victory will be putting up the right contender for president, but more importantly, our reps must keep their words, do what is right, and we must make sure they do. If we do this, Obama is done no matter how hard the media and Soros types try to keep him in office.

          • bodenet

            Yes, you are preaching to the choir but you are correct. The selection of John McCain was a surprise to everyone but the entrenched RINOS whose raison detre is political power and survival. Ideology does not play a significant role in their motivation. The Founding Fathers understood Locke, the ancient Romans and the Greeks. They understood the debates of the Enlightenment which fueled the French Revolution and which they were living through. Jefferson spent much time at the Salons of Paris returning on the eve of revolution. America was founded on the ideological appeal of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite expressed more fully in the founding documents.

            John McCain and those that installed him have no reverence for these documents. They see American greatness not as the triumph of the people but as the triumph of the government. They see themselves as the great leaders and not the people.

            You may be more optimistic than I because I see the overwhelming power and money from the Soros machine and the radical left rhetoric from the universities and the political indoctrination of Obama who is nothing more than a political Janissary for the revolution.

            The indoctrination of our children in the public education system, our citizens by the media and our politicians by the establishment has been thriving for years and it needs to be changed before it is too late.

            The left is preparing for mass action and revolution. Obama said as much before he was even elected but people did not listen. He wants and army as large and well trained as the military to be dedicated to him. There can be only one reason. We are up against the clock and it is the eleventh hour.

    • Return to Revolution

      or supporters- he was doing the best he could do in a blue state and as president he’d be on board for repealing Obamacare, etc.

      Even if true, I want a president who could have never served as governor of a blue state, especially if it meant implementing socialized hc.

      You have the old argument – should a pol stand on principle in the event that it goes against constituents? If it were me, I wouldn’t be able to serve in a state/district if my views were fundamentally different than my constituents.

      Applying that to Romney, he is thus one of two things: a populist or a collectivist. When our nation is on the brink, neither option is acceptable, even if Romney is a good businessman (and thus decision maker).

      • edintexas

        If Romney had been opposed to the health care law the Legislature passed, on principle, he could have vetoed. Then, assuming the Legislature and the people really wanted it, his veto could have been overridden. Either he believed in the State controlling health care, or he cared more for a potential re-election than he did about principles. Either way, he shouldn’t be anywhere close to being “in the running” – now or ever.

        • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

          I think it’s even worse. IMO, Romney fronted and signed RomneyCare because he thinks government should be proactive and “do” things.

    • emaberk

      It seems like at this point with Romney being one of the favored that Obamacare will be here to stay. You can’t reject one without rejecting both.

      • powertothepeople

        then fades within a few months. No way to know who will be in the lead come 2 years from now at this point.

        And if somehow we are stupid enough to put up a Romney type against Obama, he or she will know their place and will work to end Obamacare. They will know that if they hope to have a second 4 years, they will have to do what is needed to repeal much of what Obama has done.

        After seeing the insurgence over the last 18 months, I fully expect to see a somewhat to strongly conservative ticket running against Obama. People are fed up in this country, and even those who do not care for the conservative movement recognize that it is the only group who has the potential and the ability to stop the fall brought on by years of dem rule, years of rule by repubs who were no better than dems, and the God awful presidency of Obama.

        Romney will not be president any time soon and that is a good thing.

    • indylawyer

      My biggest fear for the next couple election cycles is that Mitt Romney will win the 2012 nomination and suck the air out of the GOP counter-offensive like Bob Dole’s nomination did in 1996. He’s a moderate, establishment, Obama-lite candidate whose record goes against everything the Tea Party movement stands for, just as Bob Dole’s record went against everything the Gingrich revolution was fighting for back then. Romney would have been even worse than McCain because at least McCain seems sincere, has a compelling life story, and is probably more conservative as well.

      And I remember all too well thinking that Dole didn’t have a chance in the new political climate in 1996. But he did. It has been a very long time since we nominated anyone who wasn’t the front-runner a year before the Iowa caucus – a timeframe that is only four months away. Maybe this time will be different, but my foremost criteria for picking a Presidential candidate will be whoever I think has the best chance of stopping Mitt Romney.

      • Return to Revolution

        Like Dole, 2012 is Romney’s “turn”, which makes his potential all the more insulting.

    • lwe6576

      Why would anyone want Romney to run for president? I wouldn’t vote for him and I wouldn’t vote for Huckabee – these two pretend to be conservatives, but they are RINOS like John McCain and a bunch of the other establishment republicans. I want someone who didn’t run in 2008 who is a conservative and who has a good chance of running and winning. I can’t bare the thought that Obama might get re-elected. How could that even happen with everything that has happened in this short period of time he’s been el presidente?

      • bodenet

        Romney is still a GOP muddle moderate republican, even if he is a fiscal conservative of sorts. We need to move on past the “old guard.” I agree that we need someone who did not run in 2008.

    • eastbaylarry

      …but Romneycare is not the problem. If MA voters want Romneycare, well they are welcome to it. I gladly give them a ‘states rights’ pass to do what I feel is a big mistake.

      But that is the way our Republic is supposed to work. Individual states can try any crazy thing they like. If it doesn’t work, it will get repealed quick enough. If it *does* work then great! The other states can then decide if they want the same or similar program.

  • jaykali

    Who knows who will emerge..I’m not so worried ab retreads and Romney might be one of the better retreads available since he’s a business guy. We can worry ab prez candidates late next year let’s get the house back.

    Democrats have complained ab phoney republican gridlock for 2 yrs with huge majorities, just wait until the Republicans get the house, there’s going to be serious gridlock, me thinks a govt shutdown is on the way…the Obama agenda is done.

    • usadying

      Every bill that passed before and after it has included more money for Sebelius to hire hundreds more people for the health care bureaucracy (check out the small business “stimulus” bill.) All of Obama/Pelosi/Reid’s bills are intertwined…Obamacare tentacles are everywhere. I don’t know how you begin to dismantle it. Which is what the progressives wanted, and why they went to such great lengths to cram it down our throats.

      • partyof1

        They should be leading this fight. Instead we must brow-beat them into signing this pledge.

        11/7
        9/11
        3/23

        • partyof1

          make that

          12/7
          9/11
          3/23

  • The_Rebel

    want to downplay ObamaCare as an issue. With this issue at the forefront next year, Romney’s chances are slim to none. So, the Republican establishment wants to deep six this as a priority. We can’t let them.

    • nvrepub

      nt

      • Doc Holliday

        maybe her handlers are just waiting to see the whites in their eyes.

    • Wine Country Dog

      I’m not saying any of them are bad – I’m saying that following a wave of fresh new faces being elected to Congress it would be appropriate to have a fresh new set of faces on the national ticket for 2012. Just think of all the canned attack ads the Dems have prepared that will have to be thrown out!

      Two years before the 2008 election 0bama’s name was on very few front runner lists except for George Soros and himself. As soon as the new Congress is sworn in next January we will hopefully see people who were not involved in the 2008 debacle start to make their moves.

      • Wine Country Dog

        .

        • blooch

          Q: What will Obama say first in his concession speech on November 7, 2012?

  • fpete13527

    If the GOP can’t get firmly behind repealing ObamaCare, with every ounce of energy that it has, then it should be blantently clear that the GOP is not serious about any of the change that needs to take place.

    I will be calling Senators and Representatives relentlessly and reminding them that this needs to be their number one prioirity.

  • spinoneone

    but let’s also have a suggestion or two on how to reform some aspects of our health care system. It is the best in the world in terms of the product delivered. If we can improve it, we owe it to ourselves and grandchildren to do so. Mandating a lesser level of care for “all” [that is to say, union members, "the vulnerable", and so on regardless of cost] is not the way to go. Mandating care is likely unconstitutional, although the current Supreme Court might not think so.

    • bobojake
  • 1stRichard

    ?A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of health care by 2-to-1.?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_poll

    How do we get past the lame stream media propaganda?

  • fbks

    are questionable. Repeal of Obamacare is a central issue that creates the intensity to draw voters to the polls and vote out Dems and Rinos who created the mess we are in.
    The Republican Senators who failed to remove Lisa Murkowski’s committee seat now, cause me to support Miller more than ever. This election is a one shot opportunity for the GOP to prove to many voters that they can govern effectively and are not going to a business as usual stance, with a slight hint of right of center flavoring.
    I am very concerned that the career staffers and operatives are determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Every incumbent and new Republican congressman/woman elected this cycle should make it a first order of business to demand a letter of resignation from every staff member and replace all liberal and business as usual staffers with fresh/conservative blood.
    I am done contributing to the NRCC, NRSC or the Alaska Republicans. I will contribute my funds, time and efforts to those Republican candidates I support directly. I do not trust that the GOP has the nerve or stomache to do the right thing as it is comprised now.
    I will vote for and support the local and state republicans in my district, Parnell, Young, Miller and a few outsiders on principal (Angle and Rubio).

  • lwe6576

    It needs to be brought to the forefront that the housing market is in horrible shape and it will be made worse with the new federal tax of 3.8% that people will have to pay if they sell their home beginning in 2013. I don’t know why conservative candidates aren’t making this an issue because it has a lot to do with the economy. What is wrong with the people and why are they not pounding this issue home in their campaigns? I want the law repealed and not replaced unless it is going to be something that is nonintrusive on our rights and will truly bring down the cost of insurance and not include new taxes.

  • mirac777

    The longer you let the train build up speed… the harder it will be to get it stopped. It will run over us eventually. If a candidate refuses to say they will repeal this Democratic power grab and wealth redistribution scam, they wont get my vote, period.1/6th of the US economy is at stake here. the greatest H/C system in the world is being dismantled in a Marxist push for socialism.
    There are other aspects that will come to light in the coming years that noone can see coming today. I learned of one fact this year.The redistribution plan does not only include the obvious wealth like in the black farmers reparations scam.The roots of the healthcare bill will be just who is getting setup to work in it. I am back in college this year. We have first and second year college students in the Health Sciences field who cant read and write at a fifth grade level. And this isnt just one or two students. In my English Lit class over half of the students at my college were not qualified for a H/S diploma.Yes, a huge percentage of them were in the “Minority” category that is found in the College reform bill and the H/C bill. I shudder to think of what will happen in the coming years when these people become doctors, nurses, administrators, etc, all having an effect on our healthcare quality and service.

  • southcoast

    I have see a fee democrat campaign commercials and to a one, none, NONE of them utter a syllable about the debacle which they passed in defiance of the Constitution, individual liberties and the American people. That these people are ignoring their role in this crime against American taxpayer ought to be the issue they clubbed with. Clubbed like a baby seal.

  • http://www.voteforteri2010.com teridavisnewman

    DeMint-Bachmann 2012
    Conservatives with vision.

    • stopobamacare101

      Just because the Democrats have no way to defend ObamaCare doesn’t mean that we should immediately attack a non-defensible position.

      What would Patton do?

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  • Rusty_S

    Isn’t this also the issue that got Scott Brown elected?

    Obamacare is also about the economy, taxes, and jobs, for anyone who wants to take that angle.

  • Bill S

    Your item 1) is one I’ve been pounding on for weeks/months. The healthcare issue needs to be #1 in the minds of the electorate. That is the key thing that infuriates Americans about the Obama regime. We need a pissed off electorate on election day. That one will do it.

  • Cheryl

    and packages are going out to those fortunate enough to have jobs. There has to be huge changes in their options and costs. This timing couldn’t be any better.