Community Update

Are
You Ready For Obamacare? 

Fall
is finally here, and the worst piece of legislation in recent memory is coming
to a hospital or doctor’s office near you, and is bringing thousands of new IRS
agents with it. Obamacare is set to take effect on January 1, 2014, registration
begins October 1, 2013, but the law is still a chaotic mess and completely
unworkable. Not even the bureaucrats and lawyers who wrote this abomination
know what to make of it. Nevertheless, Obamacare’s effects on our lives have
already begun. Thanks to the law’s regulations that punish employers with
unaffordable mandates if they hire more than 49 workers, or employ workers for
more than 30 hours per week, part-time employment has exploded, forcing millions
of Americans to hold down multiple jobs just to make ends meet.

Incredibly,
77 percent of jobs created during 2013 were part-time jobs, thanks to the president’s
and democratic lawmaker’s signature job-killing legislation of 2010, which is
quickly turning America into a part-timer nation. Obamacare is also hurting
employment levels, as fewer people are participating in the labor force than in
the past 34 years.

Premiums
and deductibles are also set to soar next year nationwide under to so-called ‘Affordable Care Act.’ Just here in
California, monthly premiums are set to jump anywhere between 64 and 146
percent! Despite the president’s promises, Obamacare is quickly making
healthcare even more unaffordable for the average American. If only our elected
politicians cared about their constituents as they care about themselves and
their staffs, they would have reversed this legislative tragedy years ago.

In
order to get Americans back to work and preserve the world’s best healthcare
system, we must reverse this horrible legislation! First, we must seek a delay
of the entire law’s implementation, as the Obama Administration has already
done for specific parts of the law that will hurt the president's corporate
donors. Then, we must build a legislative coalition to defund and ultimately
repeal Obamacare, immediately followed by healthcare reforms that use a
market-oriented approach to halt medical inflation and promote free-market
competition that will lower healthcare prices. The fight will be long and hard,
but as Americans become increasingly familiarized with Obamacare’s ugly
side-effects, we will prevail! 

Greg
Raths

Candidate
for CA 45th Congressional District 2014