Alabama House Speaker Reacts To Healthcare Ruling
By: Contributed
Updated: June 28, 2012
Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard today reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling
on ObamaCare calling it "a victory for government-loving bureaucrats and a loss for taxpayers and small businesses."
The
Court upheld the law's requirement to purchase health insurance under
Congress' authority
to tax, but struck down the authority to penalize states who choose not
to participate in this massive expansion of government-subsidized
healthcare.
"Today's
ruling is a victory for government-loving bureaucrats and a loss for
taxpayers and
small businesses," Speaker Hubbard said. "It just goes to show how
vastly different our approach is from President Obama and the Democrats.
We are trying to reform government and rein in wasteful spending, and
President Obama is forcing a shocking expansion
of government that raises taxes on businesses and families. We're trying
to incentivize business and create jobs, and President Obama is
mandating job-killing bureaucratic regulations. It's time for Congress
to repeal this job-killing law and replace it with
a conservative approach to healthcare.
"If there is a silver lining to this ruling it is that the federal government may not penalize
Alabama if we cannot afford to participate in this expansion of government. That's important because,
with our budgets already strapped for funds, the last thing we need is a mass increase in Medicaid healthcare costs."
Speaker Hubbard added that Alabama voters will have their say on the matter at the polls
in November, when the referendum passed by the Legislature in 2011 opposing the ObamaCare tax will be on ballots statewide.
"This
November Alabama voters will have a chance to voice their opposition to
this massive
expansion of government loud and clear," he said. "Hopefully, by then,
the law will have been repealed. Still, I encourage all Alabamians who
resent this job-killing tax to go to the polls and make their voice
heard."
