On the recordFebruary 2, 2011
I rise today in support of the amendment to repeal the health care law. We made a mistake last year in passing this law, and a large majority of American people know it. In the face of the largest debt in our history, it was the height of folly to create a new spending program, offering subsidized health care to 30 million Americans. It is a promise we cannot afford to keep and one that our lenders may force us to retract. Before losing our credit rating or suffering the humiliation of foreign lenders denying us new loans, we should take the decisive action now to end this entitlement. Congress should replace this mistaken law with bipartisan reforms that prohibit the government from overriding the decisions you make with your doctor, that defend your right to buy insurance from any State in the Union, and to make lawsuit reforms to lower the costs of defensive medicine. The failed health care law now ruled as unconstitutional by two Federal courts uses the commerce clause of the Constitution to create an unlimited government that could require Americans to buy what they do not want. The very heart of the Constitution was the creation of a limited government that could only accomplish its defined missions, leaving all else to the people and to the States. These courts are right, the law is unconstitutional.
